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New Orleans Saints interim head coach Darren Rizzi’s postgame interview following the Saints loss to the Washington Commanders in Week 15 of the 2024 NFL season. Saints scored a touchdown as time expired in regulation but were unsuccessful on the two-point conversion, losing 19-20. Commanders at Saints Game Recap: https://www.neworleanssaints.com/game-day/2024/reg-week15/commanders-at-saints/recap
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just a just a mixture of emotions um because you know we leave we walk off the field with a loss but I don’t know if I’ve ever been more proud of a team so it’s a uh certainly a mixed bag there um obviously it was a tail of two halves um we did not play the game we wanted to play in the first half uh that’s that’s uh a little bit obvious you know we had one first down and we had we had 14 total plays and that that wasn’t all on the quarterback um you know we felt like we needed to make a change there at halftime we did Spencer did a great job came in provided some spark but not only that we played uh you know we only gave up uh six points in the second half which gave us a chance to win um but as I just told the team you know we needed one more play and unfortunately we dug too big of a hole there in the first half we dug a 14-point deficit so um listen when I when I took this job on my first day I told you I told everybody that we weren’t going to lack passion and we weren’t going to lack fight and we weren’t going to be boring to watch and uh i’ I’ve never seen a group in there fight harder uh be more passionate and uh and certainly uh C that was an exciting second half of football I wish that we would have duplicated it for two halves um but at halftime we said hey we’re going to find out a lot about ourselves and how we’re going to respond and you know what kind of fight we are that’s what we’ve been talking about uh for these last five games and six weeks so um you know as I just told the group uh I have been extremely proud um of the way that everybody in the locker room has handled the situation uh in the last six weeks and in the last five games uh and I didn’t think I could be any prouder uh but I was as proud as I’ve ever been walking off the field today because uh that was just an unbelievable uh fight to the Finish and we were just one play short so um with that said I’ll take some questions after watching both of them play like in hindsight how do you look at your decision to start Jake over Spencer yeah listen I think I think Jake’s um first half comes down to a couple plays one um he completes that third down ball to Cedric for a big play we’re going to have we’re going to have really good field position and he gets called back for holding and that was a a huge swing because we get sacked on the next play so you guys can look look it up that’s like a 40 yard plus swing in the game and that might change the whole entire half for for Jake and then he had another great throw uh to to mvs un L an mvs had a phenomenal game but mvs drops that that overball uh that’s kind of on the run and so you take those two plays and if we don’t get a holding call which was suspect and then if you don’t um and then if you don’t and we we complete that ball we might be talking having a different conversation I just felt like and the offensive coaches felt like we just needed a spark uh in the second half and that’s why we made that decision I’m I’m certainly not down on Jake listen we only had 14 plays they controlled the clock they controlled the ball they did all the things that we didn’t want them to do coming into this game and so like I said earlier it’s not all on Jake but what Mak you think that a spk was needed besides Jake if he only have 14 plays in the first well we had one first down and we had had zero points so it just you know we were look we we were we were kind of reaching there for something and sometimes you a fresh face in there uh I’ve said this before Jake and Spencer are very similar players uh just we need we needed a little you know I thought I thought there was a couple plays although there was Jake had some positives I thought we we held the ball a little too long a couple times took a couple sacks it wasn’t all on him uh was you know some of the protection as well so that those are the reasons you know sometimes when you’re in in one of these games and you’re just stale uh you’re looking for a spark and uh we just felt like a change of scen change a change at the position was was the way to go how do you think the guys responded when it was SP yeah as I said in the in the at halftime to to the offense we just need the first score to get a little momentum going you know sometimes there’s a Snowball Effect and so I think if I’m not mistaken we had one first down in the in the first half we had 16 first downs in the second half like I said a tail two halves so just it’s just really that initial we needed that initial you know scoring drive to get a little confidence you know when there’s a big fat zero up on there for a while that’s that there’s not a lot of confidence going on and then so once you get that first score everybody starts feeling like a little bit like on the sideline like yeah hey we can do it so that’s that’s kind of where we were your plan was always to go pursue uh listen I I’m I’m not going to sit here and tell you it was predetermined before the game I just felt like the way the game played out uh ak ak had gone out he was out for the game uh mvs got banged up uh we started to lose more offensive weapons you guys felt the momentum shift there at the end listen I I I don’t regret it whatsoever I don’t think the players regret it uh they’re all in favor of it uh and so I just thought it was the right thing we managed to clock very well there at the end I thought the Kendra you know Miller ran the ball really well there in the two-minute except for maybe the one play which we didn’t block great uh we we completed that ball to Foster we got the ball clocked we got the touchdown we left no time on the clock for for Washington Jaden Daniels that was the plan and I just felt you know we talked um during the drive if we liked our two-point plays and all that so uh when we scored I there was no doubt in my mind we were going to go for two and go for the what do you learn about Spencer in a situation like that well you know it’s the same thing that Spencer’s been you know and part of the reason we drafted him is you know Spencer is not the tallest not the strongest arm not the most athletic guy but he’s a he is a outstand he’s a gamer he’s a classic gamer you know you put his college film on that’s what he was he was a gamer and uh he he just has that uh natural you know uh leadership ability he’s got some playmaking ability I know in the three games he started you know there were some bumps in the road there he’s a like any rookie and so I think he learned from that experience um you know and so uh it tells me a lot about his character tells me a lot about his heart the guy didn’t Flinch uh he was excited at halftime to go in the game uh he took on a leadership position he never felt like one time in there that he didn’t belong and so all those things I’m I’m very very proud of Spencer just told him the same thing how do you think the defense handled Jaden yeah I mean listen I what I would I signed up for 20 points before the game yes if you told me coming in they were going 20 I’m going to tell you we’re going to win um and so he made some plays that’s what he does that’s why he won the Heisman Trophy it’s why he was drafted where he was drafted and that’s why he’s having the season he’s having he’s a phenomenal player um and you know we knew we had to kind of contain him a little bit um but he made some huge plays some couple two particular huge scrambles he had the fourth down run for them where he jumped over the top took a couple more minutes off the clock he had some great throws that’s what he’s doing but uh you know yeah I again I’d be lying to you if I told you before the game if you told me hey defensively we’re going to give up 20 and then we’re going to give up six points in the second half you know would would would have signed up for that before so I think overall uh a solid performance by the defense and uh you know and but Jaden Daniels you know again you’re he’s going to make those plays you got to hope to you know you got to hope to contain some of them and he made a few on us in crucial moments yeah I imagine it’s even harder for for Spencer rler some to come in a game like that without having appeared in a game since week eight or taken any first team reps what what do you think it is that allowed him to get so comfortable so quickly his preparation um I think that you know he came into this game knowing that uh you know we we did give him some reps during the week uh he had the whole menu of plays um and a lot of times you know once we decided to that Jake was the starter um Spencer prepared himself like he was going to be uh you never ever see you know never a bad attitude never a uh uh you know never sulking anything like that this guy’s a this guy’s a pro uh at a very young age he’s been through a lot obviously transferred around college and he’s been in a lot of systems and uh you know I I it’s a credit to him uh he’s a resilient resilient person and that that showed today so again ult Ultra proud of him and is there anything you can point to to obviously the team was also struggling to run the ball at all in the first half had a lot more success in the second half was there adjustment made just any improve performance well I mean listen we only had 14 plays and it’s hard hard to to degrade the body of work uh in the first half because we had some penalties mixed in there um you know we had some negative plays mixed in we got behind the chains you know we had third and you know seemed like seemed like third and uh you know double sticks a lot of times and so it’s hard to get any we just got no momentum going there and so um that’s kind of where we were in the first half so Darren at the end of the third quarter what was the discussion with the officials the field goal game missed and then they yeah it got totally mismanaged so um you know I uh they had to dive and catch I didn’t agree with it at all with the way it was was done um so we had to dive and catch and I wasn’t sure I had the challenge flag in my hand and I was talking to the sideline official and I’m looking at the clock and we’re discussing on the headset about you know hey the quarter is going to end here they’re going to take the quarter and I got the challenge flag in my hand I’m trying to figure out and communicating with up top whether or not we’re going to challenge the the catch or not and I’m talking to the official and I’m saying to him hey I might challenge this I might challenge this hey the quarter’s over the quarter’s over the quarter’s over the quarter’s over the the quarter’s over for about four or five seconds they let the play go he misses the field goal so whoever’s in charge of uh shutting the play down they let obviously let the play go on um and so the the explanation I got is it’s a replay assist situation the play shouldn’t have been run because the clocks were at zero the clocks were at zero the clocks were definitely at zero the quarter was over um but the officials missed that and uh and that’s why the play was allowed to go on that’s where my gripe is the play should not have been allowed to go on they gave the field goal kicker basically a freebie they gave him a a the Miss hit and so I’ve been coaching kickers for 30 years you give a guy a warm-up shot he’s got a pretty good shot to makeing the second one the the success rate goes through the roof when your guy gets a gets a second chance so that’s where my gripe was is that it was just it was a it was a management game management from the officials operations I’ll let the league handle it but I but I hope that you know everybody else gets held accountable in this league um I hope that the people that that that mismanaged it I can tell the cannibal too because it was it was completely mishandled you obviously disagreed with the the call against pton Turner as well did you ever get another look at the replay what made you think I was I did disagree with that they they caught that on camera um yeah I disagreed you guys saw the play so yeah I’m I’m I’m I’m on I’m skating out the ice as it is so I’m gonna I’m gonna I’m gonna bite my tongue but I did I I disagree with the call yeah but but it’s a shame that it’s a shame that seven points in the game because it was a one a one-point game so it’s a shame that seven points in the game come down to a penalty on a field goal block and a quarter that was over and they let the play go that’s it’s that that’s just a shame so that’s not a criticism it’s a shame what was theen that they called they the explanation that I got is that pton Turner crossed over the Long Snapper and his back leg brushed the head of the Long Snapper ER that’s the explanation that I got so um you know the the Long Snapper is is a defenseless player there’s no doubt about that uh if anybody is is in favor of that it’s me as a special teams uh background guy but uh uh they said that you know I didn’t I quite they showed the replay briefly I’m going to have to go watch it I’ll come up with an opinion for myself but uh that’s on the replay that I saw that’s not really what I saw so there just so that just so that we know with the quarter ending after that missed field goal were you still able to challenge that play if you wanted to the the catch beforehand or with the breaker you no longer allowed to no since since that field goal was technically a no play then I would have been able to challenge it um I you know we saw multiple views and you know the the the feeling I got from the the guys that are in charge that up top is that there was no Clear View that that was not a catch so I I you know I saw the play on the big board I didn’t really see a great angle but there was multiple angles uh and our guys that handled the game management stuff and the replay Stuff felt felt like there wasn’t enough to overturn that so D pass yeah I’m not going to get into dere Derrick’s still on the injury list he obviously was inactive today I’m I’m he’s still out right now so I’m not gonna you know he’s going to be listed still as with the same injuries yeah I’m not going to get into the all the details on that so he he didn’t have a practice um so but that’s it what was the instant review on the uh uh the two point point conversion play the decision to to to go with that play call how close it g or whatever it is yeah I mean every every game you have a couple of twoo a few twoo plays up on the menu I just felt like uh the Clint and the offensive staff felt like that was our our best call uh listen didn’t work out uh is what it is so uh phenomenal Drive getting down there and phenomenal Drive getting us in in a position to win the game but unfortunately we didn’t execute that last one am I rolling touchdown catch I’m sorry cat uh I think that’s where he initially kind of felt something um that’s what it sounds like from our medical staff I’ll get more information he’s going to get some Imaging done and stuff so I’ll have more on that later I’m not I by Rolling Spencer out is that kind of trying to play his strength in a situation like that I I think it was more uh I think more M was more the play call that we liked um you know Spencer can obviously does a great job with the dropback stuff too but in that in that specific situation you know we felt like we we knew the defense we were going to get felt like that was our best play call I’m not sure if we got a koola in the kre update it happen late in the game yeah all I know is if we had gone back on in on defense I was told that he he would have went back in the game I I don’t know all the details of it either but I was told during the game on the sideline that he I was just told I was told he was he was gonna go back in the game was a stinger is thank you Stinger Darren how much was the decision at the end to go for it based on just feel and momentum and how much was based on you all were going to do that maybe before the game you know yeah Jeff I I really think two major won the momentum that you know we had got gotten all gained all the momentum back uh I felt like if we kick the extra point and we go to overtime now who knows who gets the ball you know Jaden Daniels is a phenomenal player Kool-Aid had gotten banged up AK had gotten banged up mvs had gotten banged up and I’m just kind of looking and saying ah this is our chance to win the game and so it was probably number one a momentum thing and probably number two a more of a Personnel where we were in the game and and you know if you probably if you told me at halftime that you’re the last play of the game you’re going to be throwing the ball to win the game you know and so you know with the way the first half went and so I just felt like at that point you know listen I know there’s the old adage about you know go kick the extra point at home and go for two on the road and all that we would have went for two in the Rams game too just the way the games played out um now if we had been scoring and the score was 45 to 45 you know might have been or 45 to 44 we kicked the extra point maybe a different scenario but just with where we were I just felt like it was the right call I don’t regret it when you when you took the the job that you’re going to be aggressive that’s the way you are naturally I mean does that feed into the same mentality you want to show your your players I I think so I don’t think there’s a guy in the locker room that that regrets that we went for two there’s not one guy in there that mean uh that you know didn’t want to do that the whole sideline uh with they believe me there was plenty of opinions uh I got to make the final decision but at the same time you I don’t think there’s there’s zero I have zero regret I don’t think the players do either I was we we were in a position the last the last play to win it we got one play from the two yard line to go win the game you know and with all that momentum I just thought it was the right call so you spoke you spoke last week about sort of the Clean Slate for guys like kendre Miller two weeks in a row he’s had nice days what have you seen from them I’m I’m extremely proud of kendre um I’m really proud of kendre because of the way he’s handled the last couple of weeks he’s kind of just tried to block out all the outside noise and work hard uh work on the things that he needed to needs to work on ball security and pass protection and the mental uh he did have one mental in the game earlier in the I kind of got on him because we we had a had a burn of timeout because we were in the wrong formation um so but you know listen uh his his whole thing Kendra’s whole thing is if he can stay healthy and if he can be consistent with you know the week toe game plan you see the player that that he showed the last two weeks what he’s capable of and I still think there’s just so much football out there for that guy and so you know he’s he’s a guy I’m rooting for because I just think he’s got a brilliant career ahead of him if he can take care of those two things yeah I don’t know we got the extra day let’s kind of see um let’s see where let’s see where Derek is hopefully an extra day helps his hand you know maybe heal a little bit more and we’ll kind of see if he’s got function and that kind of stuff um but you know we’ll we’ll reevaluate that I mean certainly Spencer just came off a really good second half here so we’ll certainly take that into account but I don’t want to make any proclamations yet we we got the extra day off and and we’ll kind of see how where everybody’s at so anything else coach appreciate it guys thank you thanks
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