“I wish it was that easy”, Barry said on Monday, when questioned if they couldn’t have shifted coverages. “We called a coverage that required Preston to drop, and he happened to be a boundary dropper, and they happened to put Tae at slot into the boundary. Sometimes you’ll have mechanisms, you have checks, or things built in where you can get out of that. Based on the personnel we were in, and the personnel they were in, we didn’t have that mechanism.”
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“If you’re Preston, you almost just have to survive the down and try to keep it as minimal as you can. But that’s a poor matchup for him to be in, and that’s totally on me,” Barry added. “For us to put him in that situation, we gotta have a mechanism to get out of it, we just have to have a built-in check, which we will and we can do. But based on the personnel that they were in, we never thought it would come. So it ended up being a bad play.”