SM: Yes. Yeah, it is. I’m confident in our players. I’m confident in our coaches. Again, they controlled the game today, and that’s the game that they wanted to play in terms of putting us in some third-and-long situations, getting us off schedule, and then minimizing their third down exposures – particularly third and longs.
Q: Von [Miller] is three games back now. He’s been held off the stats sheet in all those games. He just said in the room he’s only had three padded practices. In your mind, is he where you would expect him to be right now? Or, where do you think he is?
SM: I think you’ve got to manage expectations, right? You’re talking about a player, a human being, coming off of an ACL last Thanksgiving, somewhere thereabouts, and it’s going to take some time. I think that’s just being realistic about it.
Q: Do you think – you’re four and three, there’s still plenty of season to go here – are you maybe at a crossroads right now? It’s like an inflection point at this point. Do you feel that way?
SM: Well, we’ve got to continue to find answers to some of the reasons why we’re stubbing our toe. Whether it’s the first half of the game, we’re not playing complementary football. We missed a field goal, a 42-yard field goal. I mean, those are things we’ve got to do. And so, we’re beating ourselves at times, and we’re not linking up all three phases to control a game and put an offense, in this case, into a true one-dimensional situation. That’s the goal of every game where you can get a little bit of a lead and then you can go into it and say, hey, now we can really rush and cover. That’s somewhat of a disappointing thing in the last drive, although that screen kind of got in the way there, right, in terms of a true one-dimensional situation. But, we’ve got to continue to figure it out, continue to make plays when the plays are there to be made and put the players in position to be successful.
Q: You mentioned the kicking game. It started out red hot this season, has really been struggling the last two weekends. What do you think has been the source of some of those inconsistencies these past two weeks?
