‘“You can’t start that way in this league,” McDermott said after Sunday’s loss. “I thought defensively we didn’t play well enough in the first half against a good offensive unit spotting them 28 points. I’m not saying we did it all to ourselves, but some of it we did. Offensively, we go three and out way too many times and special teams we can’t gain field position. That’s a bad recipe and that’s tough to come back from.”’