HENDERSON, Nev.--The Las Vegas Raiders (0-2) do not have time to feel sorry for themselves after blowing a 20-point lead and losing in overtime to the Arizona Cardinals yesterday. Brian Roberts Jersey No one is more acutely aware of that than Coach Josh McDaniels.Raiders' headman delivered his review of the game after watching the film and moved his attention to the team's next contest.You can watch the entire pre s conference below, and read the transcript:Head Coach Josh McDanielsOpening Statement: After reviewing the film, much like we talked about yesterday, had opportunities Id say in all three phases to really put the game away in the second half and really didnt take advantage of those. I give credit again to them, they played really hard to grind back to get in the game and then they made the nece sary plays, converted a lot of fourth downs, two-point conversions to be able to put the game into overtime. So, give them credit. Their coaching staff did a good job, their players did, and like I said they made one more play than we did. So, well improve. Well be able to see a lot from this tape and obviously we are going to need to do that as quickly as we can.Q: When you say putting a game away, what does that come down to offensively?Coach McDaniels: I wouldnt say there is one thing. Look, when you get a lead and you have a lead in the second half of an NFL game and you are playing offense, you have to maintain the ability to be aggre sive even though the other team is maybe going to do some things to try and get the ball back or create some negative plays or turnovers to try to swing the game back in their favor. You cant just sit there and say, Lets run, run, punt, and do it that way. Again, it doesnt mean you cant run the ball, but you certainly cant sit there and just hope for the game to be over. You got to play offense, you got to be aggre sive, and when you are doing that and the defense is being aggre sive at the same time, its going to require a lot of people to execute their job well under pre sure. And again, I think you grow to that and when you get to that point where you can do that on Lou Gehrig Jersey a continuous basis, you have the ability when you put yourself in that position to put the game away. So, hopefully we will learn from what we see today.Q: If you are up 20-0 going into halftime, does it change how you call plays?Coach McDaniels: It depends on the time. It depends on the score and the time. If there is 13 minutes to go in the game, I dont think thats the time to just kneel on the ball. You have to keep playing, clearly, you saw it yesterday. Ive been through games where you can always look back and do something a little bit better and thats no different with me for this one or any game that Ive called really. You look at it and say, Hey, could we have done something a little better here or there? The answer is mostly yes. But at the end of the day, you make a call that your players know how to execute, and we got to go out there and try to do the right thing. We had a lot of good plays, and we are going to need a few more plays in key situations is what we are going to need.Q: Any lo s like you said, there might be one stop on fourth down, one stop on a two-point conversion; is that what makes it so Matt Holliday Jersey frustrating that if you do just one of them the outcome is different?Coach McDaniels: Any of them. Yeah, its the NFL and thats what makes it the greatest league in the world. I mean, weve played two close games to start the season and thats not abnormal, this league is about close games and who executes well at the end usually give themselves a better chance to win. And so, its not surprising that those two games have been tight, its two good opponents. We play another one this week coming up, so they are all that way, and it requires you to do hard things well under pre sure if you want to win in this league and thats what we are going to focus on trying to do better.Q: With 13 minutes left in the game the offense went three and out. What did you see that Giancarlo Stanton Jersey went wrong on those three short pa ses?Coach McDaniels: Had good opportunities and they made a couple decent plays there relative to getting their hand on a ball. We had a chance on the first play of the drive to have a chunk play really and I believe it was 94 got his hand on the ball in the middle of the pocket. Again, like I said, we figured they would be coming after us on that drive and they were. They were trying to make it as hard as they could make it. Again, I have confidence in our guys and so want to let them keep playing. We have to learn how to play aggre sively with a lead. Thats a mentality. Its like a boxing match, you are ahead on points after six rounds, you cant stop throwing punches, you got to keep fighting. And sometimes when you get your team into that mindset that they can maintain their aggre sion and not put themselves at risk, which thats totally doable, then they play better, and you just keep the pre sure on the other side. You cant ever feel like, Well, its their turn to apply pre sure on us and we cant do anything about it. We play offense and so offensively we are going to dictate what personnel grouping is out there and what we end up choosing to do, and the defense has to respond to it. Again, there is always little things you could say, man, I wish I would have done this better or done that. Made a different call here or there. But at the end of the day, Babe Ruth Jersey I think with that much time left, you try to be smart and aggre sive at the same time.Q: Do you feel like your team came out of the locker room at halftime with the mindset of, Hey, we got to be aggre sive and put this game away?Coach McDaniels: I mean, I didnt look at them and think they had like cashed it in and felt like we were ahead by so many points we couldnt lose. I did not have that feeling at all. Like I said, it wasnt like we didnt play competitively, we did. Theres an art in learning how to finish a game the right way against an opponent whos going to apply some pre sure to try to get back into it. It is what it is. Thats going to happen in every game that you get a lead in, so I think this will be a good film for us to watch. Weve had two completely different scripts here in the first two weeks. We were behind at halftime by a couple touchdowns and now we are ahead by three and we are going to have to figure out how to learn from both of those and do it better the next time.Q: Are you surprised with a 10-win team from last year, that they have to learn how to play aggre sively with the lead?Coach McDaniels: No. I m
