Doug Pederson says mistakes in overtime loss to Titans are ‘all fixable’

Eagles coach Doug Pederson and quarterback Carson Wentz spoke after Sunday's 26-23 overtime loss to the Tennessee Titans.

Here's what they had to say.

Reflections on the loss:

It comes down to: first of all you have to, as I said in that locker room, you have to hate this feeling more than you enjoy winning, and it comes down to each guy — starting with myself. I look at myself in the mirror and make sure that I'm doing everything I can to prepare this football team for each weekend. Effort, obviously, is always there and we have to look at the film quite honestly. And it's all fixable. The mistakes we're making are all fixable. Whether it's a coverage element being out of position or a holding when we're on the perimeter offensively [that] we can't do. It's just things we can correct in practice during the week, and that's what we have to do.

On failing to stop the Titans on 4th down and 15 with 4:51 left in overtime:

It's a situation where, again. we were just a little out of position. Credit them, it was a great play. Fourth and 15, it's a fixable situation, obviously, and we'll get it corrected.

On settling for field goals at the end of regulation and in overtime instead of going for touchdowns:

A couple times, we stopped ourselves: whether it was just execution, maybe a penalty backed us up just a touch, a sack. Something negative happened. And it just got us out of our rhythm. It seems like we got down there fine and Tennessee bowed their neck and kept us to three, much like our defense has done for the first month of the season. And again, we pride ourselves on the red zone, we've been pretty good there, and we've just got to continue to work.

On whether a loss like this is less likely to snowball because of last season's success:

It has no bearing. Those guys in there are sick to their stomachs right now. This hurts. This stings. Losses like this sting, and it's something that we use as fuel four our emotion and moving forward. We try to go 1-0 every week. That's our main objective. And it starts in practice when we come back together on Tuesday. … It's not going to snowball that way.

On whether he takes more responsibility for fixing the team's struggles right now:

Yeah. A lot of it falls on my shoulders. Preparing this football team during the week — mentally, physically, how we practice, all of that. But the one thing that this team has learned through resiliency and just the ownership of them doing their jobs [is]: do simple better, just focus on their task and their job. And that's coaches and players. I tell them all the time it can be a simple game if you keep it simple, you eliminate turnovers, you eliminate penalties and just go execute. And that's where we're at.

On dropped passes:

Maybe just lack of focus at the time. You can account it to a lot of things. But the number one thing is, we've got to make sure we do catch the football and we just continue to work.

On throwing an incomplete pass on third down in the final seconds of the fourth quarter, after which the Eagles kicked the field goal that sent the game to overtime:

They covered us. They had us covered and a little miscommunication there as well. I just tried to throw it away and keep our field goal position and take the field goal.

On how frustrated he is to not have won the game:

It's frustrating to, obviously, come up short, especially as an offense when we had chances. We had chances to finish in the end zone at the end of the game, finish in the end zone in overtime, and we just didn't execute in the red zone the way we wanted to. You can look at all sorts of plays from the game and at the end of the day we just didn't finish as an offense, and as a team either.

On what Pederson said to the players in the locker room after the game:

We've just got to regroup. Obviously we're a quarter of the way through sitting at 2-2, not quite where we want to be, but we've got a long way to go yet. We've just got to keep staying together, and there's a lot of things we've got to clean up. I think we're right there, we've just got to clean up some things and finish some drives as an offense.

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