BB: It was a disappointing game to lose for us. I thought that it was
obviously a tough game, a hard-fought game. But in the end the Redskins made
a few more plays than we did and we just weren't quite able to make enough
there at the end. That's about the way it goes in this league. That's about
the kind of game we expected down here. They are a good team and we just
came up a little bit short today, I think in all three areas. That's really
about it.
Q: Why the third-down draw call at the end there in that situation?
BB: We were trying to pick up the first down.
Q: Was there a thought to call a timeout there on fourth down or was the
thought to catch them off guard?
BB: I think we ... no, we had a pretty good idea what we wanted. There was
still plenty of time left and it just came down to that play to keep the
drive going, but we would have been able to use the time had we converted
there.
Q: Any thought to possibly kicking a field goal? Did you have any
discussion about that?
BB: No, not with fourth-and-two (actually three).
Q: It worked out for you, but the decision not to onside kick? Did you
talk about that and what went into that decision?
BB: We talked about it. We decided to kick it deep. We thought that was a
better play in that situation. It was before the two-minute warning. We
still had a time out left.
Q: In the long run was it the turnovers that killed you more than
anything else?
BB: I think we came up a little bit short in all three areas of the game. I
think that we didn't make enough plays to win.
Q: One was a turnover and one wasn't, but the two hot potato plays where
the ball was loose for a long time, they came away with both of those. Is
there something you can do to practice something like that?
BB: You practice recovering fumbles. We do that drill weekly. You try to get
on the ball, get your hands on it, cover it up and not get it poked out. We
do that every week.
Q: Did you think you got a break on the call that was not ruled a catch
on the out of bounds play on their part at the end there?
BB: The ball came out when the receiver hit the ground.
Q: So you thought they made the right call?
BB: I thought the ball came out when it hit the ground. I didn't get as good
a look at it as they did, but the ball came out when he hit the ground.
Q: Were you too far to try Adam [Vinatieri] and tie the game there on
fourth and two?
BB: We thought we could pick up the fourth-and-two (three).
Q: Considering the number of injuries you came into the game and the
possibility that you might have difficulty in those spots, just in your
initial analysis does it seem like the guys that you put in there pretty
much performed at a level that shows hope? They weren't' exploited to huge
degrees ...
BB: I don't know. I think the team played hard. I think we made a number of
plays, but we didn't make enough. They made more than we did. I don't know
any other way to put it.
Q: At almost any level I would suppose that missing as many guys as you
were that just to come this close would be an achievement, but I suppose at
this level it isn't enough?
BB: I don't really look at it that way. I'd liked for us to have made a few
more plays there at the end to be able to win it and we didn't. So I think
that's what the feeling is.
Q: On Tom's [Brady] interception there in the end zone it looked like he
was pounding his fist like he thought he might have made a bad decisions or
a bad throw? Did you see that?
BB: I don't think any quarterback thinks he made a good play after he throws
an interception. I am sure that every quarterback would like to have every
interception back. I don't think anybody comes off the field saying, 'Great
I just threw an interception.' I wouldn't expect anybody to do that.
Q: You didn't look very pleased with it either when he came off the
field?
BB: Do I usually look happy when we throw interceptions?
Q: On your last offensive play you went deep over the middle, I would
have thought that you might have gone short just to pick up the first down?
A 5-yard pass?
BB: We had a couple of short receivers and it was tight there. The
quarterback probably thought he couldn't get it in. I wouldn't second-guess
that one. Troy Brown was short for first down yardage, but I don't know if
that was open. I don't think it was.
Q: Do you talk about the injuries before the game or do you just say,
'Hey, let's go?'
BB: We talk about winning. We talk about doing what we need to do to win.
That's what we talk about. We talk about the game plan. We talk about the
strategy. We talk about what we need to do to win. That's what we talk about
before every game. |
