Ron Rivera Presser: Washington loses to Kansas City 31-13; I thought we would have handled adversity better

LIVE: HC Ron Rivera speaks with the media following today's game https://t.co/QlF3SgUJJ7

— Washington Football Team (@WashingtonNFL) October 17, 2021

Ron Rivera: "When you have a chance, you got to take advantage of it. And we didn't."

— Nicki Jhabvala (@NickiJhabvala) October 17, 2021

Ron Rivera is at the podium. He said there were "way too many" opportunities that Washington didn't take advantage of. It's a hard pill to swallow, he said.

— Zach Selby (@ZachSelbyWFT) October 17, 2021

Rivera said his team didn’t respond to adversity in the second half. Missed a kick, then jumped offsides on defense.

— Matthew Paras (@Matthew_Paras) October 17, 2021

Ron Rivera said the WFT didn't "handle adversity" in the second half. Said Mahomes also escaped the pocket more for a couple runs and some throws on the run.

— Nicki Jhabvala (@NickiJhabvala) October 17, 2021

Rivera: "I think the message to the guys is we have to handle adversity. We have to play two halves of football. ... We got to be able to handle mistakes, correct the mistakes and keep going forward."

— Nicki Jhabvala (@NickiJhabvala) October 17, 2021

Rivera: "We needed to make plays in the second half, and we didn't as a football team. That's pretty much it."

— Nicki Jhabvala (@NickiJhabvala) October 17, 2021

Ron Rivera: "I thought we would've handled the adversity a little bit better."

— Nicki Jhabvala (@NickiJhabvala) October 17, 2021

“A ittle bit of a snowball effect. One bad thing lead to another” - Ron Rivera on WFT second half. #WashingtonFootball pic.twitter.com/rnHdWFCbW0

— Darren M. Haynes (@DarrenMHaynes) October 17, 2021

Ron Rivera, on Antonio Gibson's shin injury: "We'll see how he is. We did take him out of the game because he was struggling with it. ... We'll see how he is tomorrow morning."

— Nicki Jhabvala (@NickiJhabvala) October 17, 2021