Alex Smith talked about Sunday's loss to the Colts before the Redskins held practice today. He talked about missed opportunites, dealing with wins and losses, Aaron Rodgers, and more.
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Redskins first half:
Alex Smith on Redskins first half offense - Could I have taken a shot here? All week we talked about being patient.
— JP Finlay (@JPFinlayNBCS) September 19, 2018
Smith: “Third down, situational football cost us in the first half.”
— Matthew Paras (@Matthew_Paras) September 19, 2018
Redskins 2nd half:
Smith says in second half Colts were playing so deep to limit any big chunk plays.
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Alex Smith at the podium. He said the Redskins were one dimensional in the second half. pic.twitter.com/6JQABBZA7s
— Matthew Paras (@Matthew_Paras) September 19, 2018
Balance between check downs and throwing downfield:
"Yeah, I mean I think every guy on the team, certainly every guy on offense went through the game and what plays could I have done differently to help us. For me, in the first half of the game is maybe when I went through that in my head. Could I have taken a shot here? You know, all week we talked about being patient. The way they play defense, be patient. Let the shots present themselves. You don’t anticipate in the first half that you’re going to get in the second half and still be trailing. In the second half, very apparent, I mean they were not going to let anything get over their head or get behind them. It was so soft. Hence, a lot of the underneath stuff was open. So, then you do look back at that and you’re like ‘well God maybe this one play in the first half should I have held it a tick longer and taken a shot or could I have looked this off and gone here?’ That’s kind of the game you play with the what-ifs, you know, in a situation like that. It’s hard though when you have limited opportunities. You expected to have more opportunities and we didn’t have them. Then, obviously, in the second half [we] kind of got one-dimensional.”
Michael Floyd/Breshad Perriman:
Smith says “we’ll see” about getting to know Michael Floyd and Breshad Perriman. Just met them this morning
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Aaron Rodgers:
Alex Smith at the podium. On Aaron Rodgers “Ya know...he’s a decent player.”
— Craig Hoffman (@CraigHoffman) September 19, 2018
Alex Smith on Aaron Rodgers: “Decent player....always linked. We’ve followed each other’s career.” pic.twitter.com/BK73OYNleP
— Brian McNally (@bmcnally14) September 19, 2018
Limited opportunities vs Colts:
Smith keeps coming back to the same thing in the Indy game: they had limited opportunities. If they had executed better and converted on 3rd downs, they could’ve done a lot more of the things that wound up working later in the game.
— Craig Hoffman (@CraigHoffman) September 19, 2018
Second guessing:
Smith talked about how much second guessing happens internally the day after a loss like that. There’s a lot of trying to stay patient in the game, then the next day you wind up wishing you made changes faster.
— Craig Hoffman (@CraigHoffman) September 19, 2018
Dealing with a loss:
Smith on coming off a loss: “The tale of the season is how you handle these situations.”
— Matthew Paras (@Matthew_Paras) September 19, 2018
Jordan Reed:
Smith asked about getting Reed involved early: “There’s no play we can really call and jam it into a guy. I think good offenses can adjust.”
— Craig Hoffman (@CraigHoffman) September 19, 2018
If one guy, like Reed who commands a lot of attention, gets a lot of coverage, you have to be able to take advantage elsewhere.
Starting receivers:
Smith: "It's hard looking at the numbers for these first two weeks, the defenses we've played, the style that they've played necessarily hasn't dictated a lot of balls going outside to those guys. But I feel really good about it. Those guys work extremely hard..."
— Matthew Paras (@Matthew_Paras) September 19, 2018
"I think it’s going well. I think it’s going really well. I think it’s hard looking at the numbers with these first two weeks just the defenses we played, the style that they’ve played necessarily hasn’t dictated a lot of balls going outside to those guys. I feel really good about it. Those guys all work extremely hard. They’re all crazy talented. I think it’s one of those things that you just kind of … it’s a process that never ends. You’re constantly working at that. You don’t know when that opportunity is going to present itself. I think all those things, it comes in bunches. You keep working. You never stop no matter what. I mean win, lose, all this stuff, you just kind of … it’s a process that you never stop working at on the field and in the meeting rooms.”