 Well coach I would think just knowing you over the years the losing isn't getting any easier it's starting probably to get old for you. How do you handle another loss? It doesn't get easy and it doesn't get old. If it gets old it means you're used to it. Your frustration level is high and your energy level is high and you still want to get back out there but you know the mistakes in the second half that causes the game have got to be corrected and it's up to the coaches and individuals who make them the correct one. Where do we stand with with Darnold for next week? Early right now he is getting better. I'll see if he does anything on Wednesday though. If he can't go is it going to still be Josh McCown or would you consider Davis Webb? No it'll be Josh if he can't go. How come? I put Josh's plate pretty well yesterday. I feel like that would throw a two back but Josh knows the offense way better than Davis who would be unfair to put Davis in at this time. Now I don't know if your feelings jive with the organization but I would just think from an organizational standpoint doesn't it forward things more to take a look at what a younger quarterback can do than a 39 year old quarterback that you know exactly what he is and does not have a future with your team? Josh would be our quarterback. Now one of the questions about yesterday's game Josh threw a lot and you guys didn't run that much were you okay with the pass to run ratio? Because we were moving the ball yes I mean we tried early and they had some guys that wasn't moving very well and they stuffed us pretty good and we had some things open in the pass game so and we took advantage of it and we tried to move the ball so I mean I think we did that. How about you know you're you're taking on the New England Patriots and your game plan is is what it is but considering where you are in in the standings does it change at all to try to maybe be more aggressive and think differently than you would if you were in contention for a playoff spot or does it not change at all? It changes a little bit I mean we try to be more aggressive have some plays styled up down the field and they understood those plays and they had it backed off for the coverages for the plays we had run and it took some of the things away but we tried to be more aggressive yesterday. Almost 500 yards of offense for the Patriots and they had a big possession advantage over you as well but Leonard Williams said after the game our defense plays very well they just have an occasional lapse do you look at the defense as having played well? It's hard to play well when you're 500 something yards even if it's three or four plays that cost you and there were about three or four plays in the second half where a guy had a lapse that cost us and it cost us big time. Evaluate Leonard Williams for us and you've seen him now his entire career is he where you think he should be for his talent level? I think Leonard is a good player I think he's getting double team quite a bit more and he gets frustrated a little bit but he's every bit of the player we thought we had and he frees up other guys to make plays I'm happy where he is can he play better yes can everybody else on the team play better yes and we can coach better as well but for the effort he brings and comes to the game with all the time I'm happy with that. Do you look at yesterday coach as a little bit of a missed opportunity a lot of penalties for the Patriots you guys are even with them midway through the third and then it got away was that a missed opportunity in your mind? I thought there were missed opportunities late in the second half there were about three plays that I thought gave them the ball game that we were right there in them that we didn't make and they got away from us. Yesterday is a little bit more fresh in my mind but I do know that it's happened a few times this year coach I wonder if it's a mental thing with the defense you you're playing well you're in the game you make it a 13-13 ball game and then New England just marches right down the field score it's a touchdown we've seen that this year is there a mental block that sometimes happened where you know you've got to come up with a big stop your offense finally answers and maybe it's just not there for you? No it's there it's two players more mental from what happened on the plays as a part of it not being there for the team and it's a different guy there was a different guy twice on that drive and it cost us. Now you've been asked this before we'll ask it for listeners here uh first quarter uh you could have fourth and two or you could have third and twelve and you decided to take the penalty and go third and twelve how come? Third and twelve was good they're very good on fourth and two and third and twelve we knew the play was coming we had the call on and we didn't make the play. Do you believe that for sure they would have gone on on fourth and two or there's possibly like could have kicked a field goal? You know the possibility they could have kicked it right there and then I believe they would have went for it so I took the third and twelve instead. Were you were you surprised by how instantly effective Gronk was yesterday? No he's a great player I mean we knew we had to count for him and you know we blew the play that we gave him a touchdown on. You know unfortunately Todd considering the situation where your team is you know it's beat up time for you I'm sure you heard Dorrell Rivas's comments about the final game back in 2015 about how you did not have the team ready to play against the Buffalo Bills to go into the playoffs how does that make you feel does it bother you that that somebody a significant in the Jets organization would say something like that? It doesn't bother me. Why not? Your coach you get criticized when you lose and you get credit when you win it happens. Listen I would just think you'd want to defend yourself because I mean it's an accusation it's getting thrown out by somebody that is significant to the organization and unfortunately because of the situation that you're in coach it's going to be believable to everyone because one guy's going to the Hall of Fame and one guy might get fired at the end of the year so I would think that you'd at least want to just defend yourself. There's no story there. Jeremy Bates are you happy with what he's done as offensive coordinator? No because we haven't scored enough points but it's just not him it's the entire coaching staff and it's the offense in general so it's the players as well the coaches we all got to do a better job because we're not scoring a lot of points. You know we almost you almost feel guilty Todd every Monday we ask you the same questions over and over the team has lost five in a row and at some point you don't the players get blamed you keep saying it's the coaches the players aren't executing what the coaches are doing and they get held accountable here inside the building and everybody why does the game in those football understands what happens and we go over them as coaches everybody's to blame you know everybody's to blame nobody's just immune to none of this everybody's to blame and everybody's frustrated and everybody's got to get better but when they're going to say you cry about it or you pick yourself up and you fight and you move on and that's all you can do in this game win lose a draw you as long as there's a game next week at some point during the week you got to pick yourself up and fight and that's what we're doing now you mentioned if there's no darnold there would be no david's web but are there other guys that you would give at least a look to here down the stretch in these last five games if the situation presents itself yeah but we're playing you know a lot of people hurt we're playing a lot of guys now so you know everybody's dressing usually gets on the field for the most part how do you keep i mean to use an old phrase how do you keep your dober up i mean five in a row and as don said words out there that you know your dead coach walking that at the end of the year you won't have this job how do you keep your you know yourself motivated i'm a football coach that's what i do i've been through tougher times as a person and an individual and i understand where i come from so this is a sport where we get paid off for winning and i'm not winning right now and i gotta do a better job of winning and as long as i'm coaching i'm gonna fight every tooth and nail to win the next game from that this is me that's what i do and that's who i am coach i'm gonna lighten things up here a little bit a lot of talk today about paterson grabbing anderson uh by the uh nether regions you're a defensive player how often do things like that that no mortal man would want to go through happen in a pile on a football field happens every week that the same move or some variation very similar it happens quite a bit now talking about the defense getting serious again um five straight games without a takeaway which is a jet record but i was shocked by this tot i don't know if you realized it that ties an nfl record dating back to the merger in 1970 did you think it was that historic that five straight games without a takeaway man and look at it that way i just know we had our hands on some balls and we didn't come down with them we got them early and we didn't get them at this juncture the season we work at them all the time and we just hadn't come down with the balls which we got to and that helps as far as winning as well is that just not getting the breaks or is there something different they can get done to take the ball away well we've been doing everything they can get done we just got to catch it when it comes to us and we got to get the ball when it's on the ground well coach we thank you obviously and we'll talk to you next monday