I truly get never publicly throwing a player under the bus, but a simple, "We need to make that play" or "We need to be better" would suffice here instead of this coddling.
Al Golden on the defense for Jordan Battle, and the whiff on third-and-18 in first quarter: "I don't (agree with) the criticism on that one. We always got to make a tackle. I mean, we understand that, but he needs friends on that one. We've got to gang tackle that. We have to have our cleats in the ground, vision. We got to know the down and distance. We got to know the sticks. So I mean, you guys watched the film. There should be guys breaking on either side of Jordan, and it shouldn't be just a one-man show. So he knows he's got to be better on that play. I know I have to coach everybody else better to get them where they need to be when that ball is thrown on third and 18. We just need more vision on the ball, and part of it is: do we trust the rush? I trust the rush there, and all of us have to trust the rush, get our cleats in the ground, and break on the ball."