That was a steal. To get a Pro Bowl-caliber quarterback, really a franchise quarterback, it can't get no better than that for a second-round pick, now. Come on. I was excited. Hopefully, his health will be fine and we've got a lot of talent around him. |
The distraction part was gone. We didn't hear about the December collapse. We didn't hear about Ricky. We didn't hear about the Jets. We just concentrated on our job. That's a little thing. But it can be a big thing when it contaminates everyone's mind. |
The man has a plan. He knows exactly what he's doing. He has total confidence in his ability to make the right moves. |
They [the Jets] got the big plays when they needed it and we were inconsistent. I promise you that we are going to work hard and get better. |
They did a little fast-tempo offense and were moving guys in and out. You have to be able to get the calls right even when they do that. A couple times we missed communication and that starts with me. We all have to be on the same page. |
They did wear us out. You have to give credit to the Chiefs. They have a good offense and we gave them some things, including myself. ... You could tell the energy wasn't there for us, and you can't play football without a spark. There was nothing there. |
They got it done right from the opening drive. We didn't have any momentum because we didn't get off the field and when we finally scored and got back into the game, two plays and we let them score. |
They put us in a hole and it changed the whole game. |
This was about the offense winning for us. I'm not sure, for all the time I've been here, I can say the offense had won a game when the defense didn't play well. |
We had some big plays on third down that we missed. We've gotta get better and we will, I promise you that. This ain't the same old Dolphins. We're going to get better -- we had a rough day and we wish we had some of those plays back, but we're going to improve. I promise you that. |
We killed ourselves on defense, man. Let them beat you; don't let yourselves beat you. |
We practiced horribly this week. We had it coming. We had some of our worst practices of the year this week and we got outplayed today because of it. |
We should have gotten on this run earlier. That's why we're not going to the playoffs. There are plenty of games we're looking back on now and saying, 'Man, we'd be in the playoff hunt if we just pulled one or two of those games out.' We shot ourselves in the foot early. |
We're changing so many things, it's causing confusion for other teams. In the past, it's always been so simple. Now we're making offenses think a little bit. They don't know where I'm going to be. |
We're definitely going to be running our tails off because of today. We just got outplayed. They really dominated us. |