not an ideal first half at all it was you know there's a lot in there you know you're a play not a play but you're a block away You're a you know a catch away there's there's a whole bunch of stuff in the protection game they brought BL brought a lot of pressure and I thought our guys you know hung in there through it and we just you know I thought the adjustments we made at halftime I thought the the way we came back out after half was a whole lot better and you know to have a win learning lessons after a win is a whole lot better than learning lessons after a loss and taking that into a bye gives us some time to cure up a couple things but overall I thought the first half not our style of play I thought the second half was a whole lot better and uh happy to get out of there with win you knew there was expectations and pressure in this job um did you expect to be booed at that half time of your home open I don't know if I expect to be booed but I I don't know I might have booed too there there was there was enough in there that we just didn't do we didn't do well um you know but again I think that that support has to be there from this community and from this crowd one way or the other and you like to to focus on the positives and and for them to stay positive with it but ultimately it's their they have their right to do what they what they want to do out there but I thought uh when we came back in the second half and to reunite that crowd and re re-engage you know our players that would felt a whole lot better did you address that at all at halfon you say anything to the guys about the booing or is it just get to work I didn't because I I I that to me shouldn't have matter a whole lot right it should be more about that but I think Cole pots had a few words about it and and uh I think a lot of other people you know took it decently personal which is you know just part of the deal so one stop for you you guys held them two for 15 on third down but then they were able to turn that around and find find some success on fourth down what was four for six or something uh yeah four for six what was their offense doing that kind of allowed them to succeed on those well I thought they did a great job of getting a back out they they they just that back was out of the back field all day and they even had some screens I you know that out there with the back coming out in the two tight ends into the boundary blocking I thought they did a good job of you know having some rub routes and then on that fourth down with the tight end delay coming across the field Ray was in you know just got to play through the ball he just lost him at the beginning that's a tough one on Fourth and you know three or four whatever that was at that time you know he's playing into the run and that tight end just slips right out past him and he catches up at the end and then makes the tackle probably needs to play through his hands but um there was a lot of things that they executed well on those fourth Downs I thought again we did well on third down but when they get to Fourth Down they're not afraid to go on on almost every single one of them it keeps them in this game instead of them punting keeps him in this game and then for you guys on offense you know Tyler came out in the start of the second half and really help helped you guys through that drive how important was that just to start the third quarter well very important it's really important to get downhill right it's very important to get downhill and start getting some positive yards and Tyler's a big back he keeps his Pad level down he drives his knees and he does a really nice job you know running inside the tackles I thought you know then the final one of the final plays when zo pulled it we need to get the first down to get to the two-minute warning and then we could kneel it out the rest of the way uh after that cuz they were out of timeout and I thought zo pulling that one cuz they went double edge on both you know Corner Blitz safety Blitz that the whole thing they were bringing they were selling out and they should be at that moment so I thought zo having that play when I was excited for Tyler to carry it through that it did not look good and then all of a sudden zo had the ball around the edge for the first down which sealed it and what's it like having someone like George that can you know handle it running the ball and catching it I mean it's awesome he can do anything right he's he's a really unbelievable football player and I thought he you know you know proved just how good he is today I think I limped off in the first quarter his earning status on on his health at all yeah no we just got to check him out you know he had something that he had prior so it's nothing you know that he hasn't played through before we just got to see how it goes throughout this week this might be a a question better served for Dean but how much do you think like early in the season um is kind of scheming from where you thought the offense may be and just adjusting on the fly a little bit Yeah I think that's a fair a fair question especially if someone goes down then all of a sudden yamir was out as well knocked his tooth out and had to go put his tooth back in at the the dentist or wherever he went I guess and then came back towards the end of the game and um but you do you all of a sudden lose some guys that are you know Premier in different packages for you so then you have to just be able to you know move with it but it's nothing you're not expecting or not prepared for but thought we did a good job there's 64 new guys on this team right it's not just going to click and go great all the time perfectly like you would hope it would be and I thought you know last week it did go well this week you put a couple things on film they find a couple things and now we got to make sure we go back and say what is it exactly they were trying to attack and what do we not notice in some way shape or form again uh you know the back out is one thing that that shows up quite a bit and then just those fourth Downs you know what what what what's our identity in those moments you know offensively and defensively and let's just make sure we're you know in position to get off the field but then also to convert when it's our side because it really does those are those are plays that are turning the ball over or keeping that drive alive and and with it comes a whole lot of time off the clock sometimes points there's those are crucial moments that you know we just got to really you know keep focusing on and keep getting better with before digging into the film how how would you rate Alonzo's performance I don't know I I got to watch the film a little bit I thought he stood in there man he his hand was busted up he was bleeding all over the place and you know he was able to run the ball pulling it again at the end and I thought he made some good throws I just don't I I got to go see where what was downfield you know just exactly you know where we're at I was more watching the protection at times and I just got to see exactly you know what what he was seeing downfield cuz the the check down or the ability to pull it down try to run but when there's so much pressure you know there's really no Lanes to do that in so the running back had to stay in he had to find Lanes was hard to find were we winning downfield that's the ultimate question you talk about alono being under some pressure and then obviously the running game was tough to come up with in the first half are are you satisfied with the offensive line play so far through two games or well not if you can't run the ball at times right like but I am satisfied with how they came together I'm satisfied with who they are I'm satisfied with how they prepare and play and practice I'm satisfied with all of that I just think that we you know I I think also the running backs maybe missed a read or two in there where there's things that were open a little more than what what it might have looked like and they just couldn't convert that so there's a whole lot again we just got to go back and and dig into I thought they protect well we had a lot of time back there you know there was many moments where there was he was standing back there with a whole bunch of time uh and then in the Run game I think when you go back and watch it you're going to see that you're close like you're really really close we just got to do a little bit of a better job with you know uh making sure that there's one one block off or your one read from the running back off and those two things we just got to make sure that we're you know all clicking on on all cylinders again it's it's all this is this is all new to these guys that many new guys on the team that many new guys on the offense you have two guys returning from last year so that stuff takes us it takes a second for everybody to get on the same page I thought the second half though we jelled together and we came together coming out of halftime that's what I was excited about is that there was moments where you didn't feel as together then you got to that second half and you felt this whole thing you know just reunite and that's really important that we use that momentum into the carry that into this bye coach you mentioned how you're going into a bye and you know most of the time a week three bye isn't the most helpful thing in the world but given the fact that you have a lot of adjustments and you're about to face UNCC on the road yeah just what are your kind of thoughts and feelings and what are you kind of hoping to focus on with that extra week off I think just a deep dive into ourselves ultimately that's a it's got to be a deep dive into what we're doing on offense what we're doing on defense what we're doing on special teams the Personnel we have out there are we right are the right people in the right places to do the right things and then where are we seeing this you know after one game it is it is it's one game so you're going to use it and you're going to try to improve it but after two now it starts to becom as a pattern as it starts to become a pattern it starts to become you know uh something that we have to address see not that we didn't before but now it's one of those things that we got to really make sure that we you know buckle down on and just say this has got to be fixed and if if it's that guy can't do it we just you know got to be able to make some adjustments different packages and move people around to let them be in positions to execute what they're good at what was the decision-making process at the end of the first quarter where it looked like you guys may go for it on fourth down but then at the SEC start of the second you sent out no way for the kick we were just we were not going to go forth the wind was blowing this way right so we did not want to kick the field goal over there so we're going to let the clock burn out but we didn't want to just let the clock burn out so we're trying to see if they jump off sides and if they would jump off sides maybe we have a free play take a touchdown if not we're taking into the quarter we're never calling a play there taking into the quarter and kicking a field goal with the wind at his back over here and is there any update on taji no update on taji just yet he looked really good all week but just not quite ready yet having taji back in the offense how do you think that would help them get off to a hotter start yeah well I mean taj's got speed taji catches everything in his area and taji is an emotional leader out there so I think having him out there can never ever hurt right and we just we've been without him for a little bit but I think getting him back is something that we're you know all really excited about what things did you really emphasize to the offense that you needed to see in the first half that you didn't in the second half that we didn't see in the first half yeah uh well I when you go back and watch it you're going to say you're a block away You're a block away for just stay together right ultimately just stay together with it was the the message at halftime is that you you have to be able to stay United here you're not far off and then we came out and moved the ball right down the field and I thought made a lot of you know made some good plays it looked like you guys went more uptempo end of first quarter start of the second quarter and had some success is that something that was just like hey we need a spark or did you guys see something that they were doing I mean we had them in a certain Personnel package and I think they to us we felt like we we were moving the ball decently we were moving them decently and felt like they were just you know maybe a little bit tired at that moment so we just wanted to push when you get momentum going in your direction especially physically in the Run game it's good to you know push that momentum and just see how far that that could take you down the field other side of the ball a week ago you guys struggled with the Miss tackles and I think Charlotte was over four yards per carry running the ball first half some Miss tackles these guys were 4.2 yard what are you seeing on run defense and is it fixable and as simple as not missing tackles or is there more to it I I mean it is getting your surface on the tackle there's no doubt about it it has to be that like you have to be able to you know put your body on their body I see a few times where we just put our shoulder into them and safey coming in and just trying to cut him out that was a good running back kid started at Temple at one point in time right that that he is a good football player was not going to be able to just cut him out or just shove him to the ground it wasn't going to happen and I thought we made you know those are things we talked about all week those are things we practiced all week and then the Heat of the Moment you know you got to be able to feel that I guess first to realize that that's real and this kid did a really nice job I thought he was a tough Runner and uh I thought we you know were a whole lot better as the game went on sometimes in a in a game like this where it just seems like like neither side can really get anything going your playmaker makes a play and it breaks it open um do you feel like you have a roster of of guys who can do that and it just didn't happen a night or is that not an element no I think we got guys that can do it I definitely think we got guys can do it I just got to go back and check the film and just see you know there was a couple shots that we called that we just never converted on and just got to figure out why right that's I don't have the answer for you yet