Tee Higgins Reacts to Bengals Loss to Browns
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00:00 See what was so tough about trying to get into a rhythm today.
00:03 Oh, I mean, you know, all the pressures and then weather, but you can't blame it on the
00:11 weather, man.
00:12 We would have been there and done it.
00:13 It made plays in the rain, snow.
00:14 So you just come down and execute.
00:17 You feel like an uphill climb pretty much all day?
00:22 I mean, yeah, kind of.
00:23 But at the end of the day, it was what, 3-0 at what, 10-0 at half.
00:27 We came back from 10-0 before in the past, but I mean, we just wasn't executing out there.
00:33 It looked like the timing between Joe and both you and Jamar just wasn't normally what
00:37 it is.
00:38 Why do you think that was the case?
00:40 It could be the time he was out, but we can't even do that.
00:44 We can't even say that, man.
00:45 It just wasn't on the right track.
00:47 We wasn't, what I'm trying to say, we wasn't hitting on the right levels.
00:52 So I mean, we just got to go back to the film room and get it down next week.
00:55 Do you guys think you guys got enough reps with Joe last two weeks that that wasn't a
00:58 factor in missing part of camp?
00:59 I mean, I feel like we got enough reps.
01:01 You know what I'm saying?
01:02 He practiced all week.
01:03 So I mean, it just came down to executing.
01:04 There was a couple plays, like the miscommunications where the ball went and you weren't there.
01:11 What happened on those?
01:12 Some of those is my fault.
01:16 I thought it was one thing, but it was the other.
01:19 So I definitely take the blame for that.
01:21 Is that kind of an example of camp reps where you'd love to have had more of those?
01:25 No, it's just, you know, it's all me.
01:28 Just a bad mental mistake.
01:30 And you know, definitely got to get that corrected.
01:33 That's not me, you know, at the end of the day.
01:35 And hopefully the ball's back next week.
01:36 Have you ever had to win a few opportunities like that where, you know, four or five targets
01:40 and you're already able to get a catch?
01:41 Does that snowball a little bit?
01:43 Does that kind of get harder and frustrating as the game goes on?
01:45 It's definitely frustrating, man.
01:46 You know what I'm saying?
01:47 Just ending the game with no catches.
01:50 You know what I'm saying?
01:51 The type of guy that I am, the competitor I am, you know, I don't want to end the game
01:54 with no catches at the end of the day.
01:57 So definitely, definitely got to put my foot down and, you know, get back to work, grind
02:02 out, work out, get meetings, do all the little things and then come back next week bigger
02:07 and better than ever.
02:08 Have you ever had a game where you had eight targets like that and didn't come up with
02:12 a catch?
02:13 Nah, man.
02:14 Nah, man.
02:15 That's the first time ever.
02:16 Did you think it was a time issue?
02:19 Some of those plays, you know, some of those plays were just maybe a tick off, some of
02:23 those long balls?
02:24 Yes, you know, sometimes.
02:26 Some of them was.
02:27 Other ones, you know, it's my job to go make that play and, you know, wasn't able to.
02:32 You think it's a time issue?
02:33 I mean, you only had two weeks with Burrow.
02:34 You know, you only had two weeks with him in camp.
02:35 You think that was a factor today?
02:36 Could have been, but I don't want to blame it on that at the end of the day.
02:42 You know what I'm saying?
02:43 We just got to come out and execute.
02:44 Why is it such a tough matchup?
02:46 This Browns team and this Browns defense?
02:48 You know, they just get the best of us, I guess.
02:50 And we just got to bounce back.
02:52 We're just not executing at the end of the day.
02:54 You know, they executed more of their plays than we executed ours.
02:56 So yeah.
02:57 Why do you think, I mean, how do you think Burrow looked coming off the calf and being
03:02 all that?
03:03 How do you feel like he looked?
03:04 He looked good.
03:05 You know what I'm saying?
03:06 Moving around well in warmups.
03:07 Even during the game, he was moving around well, you know, but just didn't execute.
03:12 How much do you rely on a year like last year where you start 0-2 and you guys bounce back
03:17 after a start like this again?
03:19 Obviously, you know, last year we started 0-2 and bounced back, but we can't look at
03:23 last year.
03:24 You know, we're trying to go 1-0 next week.
03:28 That make us 1-1, so we're just looking at the future.
03:31 Ted called the communication earlier today poor.
03:34 Why do you think that was?
03:36 Just, you know, just wasn't communicating a lot.
03:38 Whether it be, you know, illegal formation, you know, sometimes we didn't have the communication
03:44 there.
03:45 And then, you know, it's just little things, man.
03:47 You just got to focus up, man, and just execute next week.
03:50 I know they had to play in the elements as well, but for you as a receiver, how is it
03:54 challenging to play in the rain like it is today?
03:56 I mean, it's challenging.
03:57 You know what I'm saying?
03:58 We're catching the ball, but it's our job to go out there and catch the ball no matter
04:03 the condition.
04:04 So there's really no excuses, you know.
04:08 So just got to bounce back.
04:09 I think Paul might have asked this earlier.
04:10 I'm not sure.
04:11 But in terms of making sure that the focus is where it needs to be going into a game
04:14 against Baltimore, what things do you guys need to do throughout the week to make sure
04:17 y'all are in a good spot?
04:18 We just got to lock in, man.
04:20 And just whatever we call in practice, what we would do, go over in the meetings.
04:25 We just got to lock in and write things down.
04:27 And no more mental mistakes, you know, next week.
04:30 None of the bad communication.
04:32 We got to be on top of our communication, stuff like that.
04:33 And then execute.
04:34 It all comes down to execute, like I've been saying, man.
04:36 We just got to execute.
04:37 A big moment of the game was the deep ball you against Delphite.
04:40 Delphite breaks it up.
04:41 What did you see on that play?
04:42 I mean, at the end of the day, it was a great play by him.
04:45 He put his hand up at the right time.
04:46 If he didn't do that, that's a catch.
04:48 He put his hand up at the right time and made a play on the ball.