let's go 1 2 [Applause] 3 obviously just you know tough loss for our football team and um you know it's uh it kind of gets back to this rivalry it's basically what it's advertised you know tough hard fought games and uh you know they're on predictable and certainly uh over the last x amount of years it's been been really close and uh they played a good game credit to them you know compliments to them the way they competed did a great job and we came up short so uh you know most important thing you it's going to hurt for a while and we're going have to move forward and see what we can do to um you know build off of this and I'll get to that in a second but um you know just a couple takeaways uh you know in the first half our defense played really well came up with two field goals one was off really good field position the other was after a really nice drive and uh had an opportunity you know at least on one of those maybe to get a touchdown and to come up with two field goals there it's a couple missed opportunities and you know came back and got us a little bit and then um you know we threw a pick in the first half or excuse me the start of the second half um you know which was not a total Calamity we you know gave them the ball in the plus or minus 25 they had 75 to go but uh really what happened there they had a couple possessions where they moved the ball and scored touchdowns to their credit uh I was happy at the way the offense responded after their first touchdown we came back and drove it and answered with the touchdown so that was certainly encouraging um but you know just came up short here at the end they did a good job moving the ball and credit to their field goal kicker a 55 yard field goal is you know pretty impressive effort on his part so we played cleaner football U you had the one turnover couple penalties but certainly cleaner two penalties I guess I thought our guys played hard thought they prepared hard and um you know so that's that's kind of it in enough sh right now um You the biggest thing right now for our football team we' still got 12 weeks in front of us 10 games and you you never want to lose a game certainly but the biggest thing is like Any Time of the Season you know it's how you're going to respond to it and it's important for our guys to understand I think we had a good football team here we have good leadership good coaching staff and you know whenn loser a draw you got to move forward in response so this one's going to hurt for a while but uh we'll move forward and learn from it tomorrow and go back to work on Monday I'll throw it out for questions start with Tom Tom ker Hawkeye Report Kirk can you um there's different philosophies on the going for two and when you go for it can you explain your decisions there yeah I mean it's I think maybe the debate would be you know there a two early that type of thing we that put us at 197 thought it gave us our best chance to win the football game and to me the bigger issue is us not at least getting one touchdown out of those two field goal opportunities and we had the ball down inside there close you know so that's obviously L we're going to have to improve on Kirk Elliot K Hawkeye Beacon I think correct me if I'm wrong I think Kade went four of 20 for his last 20 passes um better sure did something maybe go Ary were they doing you know getting after him in the back like what what did you see there yeah I mean you know football's a game of momentum and swings and um you know they they've played good defense ever since you know Coach Campbell and Coach hok got there so they made it tough on us you know they made it tough and we we probably missed some play maybe some misreads or miss some plays where we maybe could have averted that but that that's going to be part of football and we'll have to ride that ride that a little bit but as I said last week too I think you know I've been seeing it for a while now you know he's working his way back he's still uh you know trying to get back in game shape if you will or game mode and uh he's working hard and I think you know confident he'll do just fine postgame in the lock back here sorry postgame in the locker room describe to us what you said to the team yeah I mean there's not a lot you can't say you know you can't make anybody feel any better and um you when you work hard and you know everybody's got a lot invested in this game it's a big game for everybody in the state certainly no bigger for anybody than the players on both sides and the coaches so uh after a loss like this it's tough and there's not much you can say to make anybody feel better that's the first thing you say and you know it's going to it's going to hurt for a while but at some point we've got to turn our attention to learning from it and then the most important thing again is going to be flipping the page and that's you know sometime tomorrow night or Monday morning for sure and move on to the next opponent John seie Rapids cazette um you've had now one game with Kade that went well another that hasn't gone so well where do you kind of see things standing at the quarterback position with him and Brandon moving forward probably the way I did coming into the stadium today you know I think uh you know we expect him to be our quarterback and expect some ups and downs I've been saying it pretty consistently you know he's still working his way back into to shape and um as as as our whole team with the offense and whatever but we we'll get better we'll improve our guys have a great attitude he's got a great attitude and you know we'll work through this coach Chris me the daily ien um Caleb Johnson obviously had a really good game around 200 total yards uh despite losing this game can you just talk about what he did for your team today yeah absolutely and that that's part of football you know he's played well for us the last two years but he's he's playing at a much higher level right now part of this maturity you know his Focus is better he's practicing better um you know I think he's it's experience and maturity you know he's he's been here a couple years he's run the football worked hard uh to get better and it's it's showing out there in the field he made some really nice plays today and uh it's one thing to be encouraged but I think there's a lot to be encouraged about now we just got to pull it all together and get it to mesh and Jael [Music] oh