The disappointing thing for me is to be in a game where you look up and you say, 'Hey, we're playing pretty good with these guys, we know it's a good team, we know they've got things they can do,' and bang, we give up a 95-yard run. In each game you can point to a play or two like that and you look and say, 'God, how'd that happen? |
The environment we had to face in New England, we've got to create that type of atmosphere here for Kansas City when they come in. |
The No. 1 thing I've learned in this league, and what everyone's looking for, is the quick fix. I'm not sure there's such a thing. |
The thing right now is he will lay down and get off his feet and rest. |
The wear and tear of playing that type of schedule took its toll on this football team, and we were not a good football team in the second half. |
There are some (penalties) that are going to be called every game and there are some that can be avoided. We have to continue to coach it and eliminate those situations. |
There is a process that a guy goes through and no question -- it's not even about 14 or 16 games -- it's about being the full-time guy, for an entire game. You learn the first time you do it. He hadn't done that since college. |
There were three times where we gained enough yards for a first down ... and had penalties that knocked us back. If you do that, particularly in the environment we were in, against a real good football team that pressures most quarterbacks they play against, then you're playing into their hands. It didn't help us in terms of protecting (Collins). We need to stay out of those situations. |
There were two ways of going, ... We certainly hadn't moved the ball, we certainly hadn't stopped them. I chose to go into the halftime. If I'd used the timeouts, certainly they would have played the end of the half different than they did |
There's a lot of things we did well, and some things we didn't do as well as we need to. But certainly, the No. 1 thing we needed to do today was come away with a win. Our guys had played for stretches awfully well, and we haven't finished. We finished today. |
There's no dynamic involved - I work for Mike. I've been an assistant coach for over half the time that I've been in this league. I know my role. |
There's some guys that have had to go through tough times in that locker room. And they'll be stronger because of it. |
These situations are the biggest thing, |
These situations are the biggest thing. We've missed opportunities where we felt like we could have converted third downs. That's something that we spent a lot of time working on during the bye. |
They always are. They always have been, ... Guys play or don't play based on performance. |