Carson Wentz after Vikings lose to Bills: 'This one felt terrible'

Yeah, just wasn't good enough, honestly. Yeah, obviously. Trying to process it a little bit here, but I think just early, just didn't make enough plays, missed some stuff. Thank you very much. I got to go back and watch it. But, yeah, I've hit some of the easy stuff early, not make some of those dumb mistakes, and maybe it's a different ballgame. You know, it was tough sledding for us out there. I didn't help the cause by any means, and, yeah, wasn't our best ball. I feel like there was like an early horn interview. I felt good. Honestly, I felt good. The building was rocking. Like, I mean, what better atmosphere can you ask for Monday night here and to go kind of lay an egg, you know, personally, the way we just, I struggled early and just the team, especially with our defense playing as good as they've been all year. Honestly, they did it again tonight and we just didn't help them out. I didn't help them out and hard to put my finger on the why. Did you feel like the week of practice went really well? I did. I did. That's why it's. It kind of feels weird right now, not going to lie. Practice was great all week. The game plan was great. Felt confident with the game plan and everything. And so tough result the way it transpired out there. Carson with more runs, only 11 runs. Do you think that would have helped? Who knows, who knows. You can play the what if game all day long. We had opportunities, I had opportunities, didn't make them. And so, hang your hat, give them credit, they made plays, obviously. But we didn't make the opportunities or make the plays on the opportunities we have early, and I could have been better. Chris, I know you're still processing, but can you remember another game that went like this for you? Well, it's been a while, I haven't had many starts over the last couple years in general, but this one felt pretty terrible, I'm not gonna lie, I'm not sure. Sure. Yeah, this one wasn't my favorite, that's for sure. What are your biggest two interceptions, Carson? Yeah, the first one, the linebacker made a good play. Honestly, I just understood that ball. We got the matchup we wanted, got TJ down the seam. I thought the guy was in decent coverage, but, you know, throw a better ball and TJ makes that play. We've been seeing TJ make that play all year, and I just got to get it out there for him. The other one, to be honest, forced it, forced it, trying to make the play. I'm going to go ahead and start the rally. Their backer made a good play on the ball, but I saw a window there, a guy reacted into it, and yeah, probably just forced that one. Carson, can you figure out what mud to look for? No, not sure. Sure. It's got to be better. It's got to be better. Have you got hand-hit on a helmet at one point? Did that affect you at all? Hand's fine. Hand's fine. Yeah, I don't really know. Kind of frustrated by it, not going to lie. Do you feel the weight of just what the defense is in terms of offensively, like how much you guys want to move up for those guys? For sure, for sure. I mean, anytime you've got a great defense like that, I mean, you know. All the things, take care of the ball, sustain drives, all that stuff, that's kind of complementary football for a defense that we have. But at the end of the day, when they're playing as good as they have been, as an offense, as the guy pulling the trigger tonight, I feel terrible. I feel a pit in my stomach that I let those guys down. We want to go make plays. We want to sustain drives. We want to do all those things and score points. And we, quite frankly, haven't really done it all yet. Is there a key to it? I know Jess was here saying we need to keep things simple and go. Is it simplifying things that are done on offense or just getting back to the basics and being simple? It's a great question. If we had the answers, we'd be doing it right now, I'm not going to lie. Again, that's a good defense. They played well tonight. I thought they had things. They played well, and we didn't at the end of the day. So hard to say what it needs to look like to be better, but I think just early in ballgames, making some plays and sustaining some drives, which we didn't do tonight. Can I stop you? You actually threw it in with Justin at the end of the pump. What happened? Yeah, I just threw it a little high. I honestly didn't think twice that it was backwards, just the way he kind of reacted there. There's a lot going on out there. You know, I thought it was just not the most accurate ball, but... Yeah, I didn't really think it was going to be backwards. That's frustrating, especially after the big play by the defense there, to give it right back to them. That's the stuff that can't happen. I've got to be better, and hopefully we will. Carson, you talked about the weight of hearing championship caliber defense, small window of time, and now you have the Packers coming. How do you keep the wheels coming off after such a tough loss? How does the offense stay together and move forward? Go back to work. Go back to work again. You just said it, we have an incredible defense, so we're gonna be in every game. And so that gives us confidence to just keep our foot on the gas and figure this out. We all gotta take ownership, I gotta take ownership. And I'm confident we will, and hopefully get this thing on track. All right guys, thank you. Thank you guys.