BB: Obviously the Bengals played great tonight. They were outstanding in
every phase of the game. We didn't do much of anything well. I thought that
they totally dominated the game, obviously, every phase of it – offense,
defense and special teams and all the situations within it. They played
impressively. They played well. They didn't make many mistakes. And we
didn't do any of those things. We didn't coach well. We didn't play well. We
got totally outclassed tonight. So it's disappointing to play like that, to
have our team perform like that, and we obviously have a lot of work to do.
I don't know how you could see it much of any other way.
Q: Did you see any signal that this kind of performance might be coming?
BB: It doesn't matter. The only thing that matters is how we perform and we
didn't perform well. We didn't coach well. We didn't play well and they did
everything very well. So clearly they are the better team.
Q: Did you plan to play your defense early in the game and then again in
the second half?
BB: We never said exactly how we were going to do it. We tell everybody to
be ready to go the whole way. We didn't play very well at any point in the
game, with any group...nothing was very good.
Q: Was it a situation where you wanted them to keep doing it until they
got it right?
BB: We played different combinations of people and it all turned out the
same. They took the ball, they moved it down the field and they scored. We
took the ball, ran three plays and gave it back to them.
Q: Does Guss Scott's injury look bad?
BB: We'll have to see. I didn't get a chance to talk to him yet. Hopefully
not.
Q: Any comment on the Ty Law situation, missing time last week?
BB: No. I don't have any comment on that.
Q: [Inaudible]
BB: I don't know. There are obviously a lot of things that need to be
addressed. I am sure we will put them in a priority order. I think the best
thing we could do is take a look at it, think about it and kind of
recalibrate where we are and then go from there.
Q: Does this surprise you or did you almost think this might happen at
some point?
BB: Again it doesn't really matter. That doesn't really matter. The team
wasn't ready to play well. The team didn't play well. We got crushed in
every phase of the game. So whatever it was, it wasn't very good on
anybody's part. That's every one of us who had a jersey or a shirt on out
there. I don't know how they could take any kind of pride whatsoever in that
performance.
Q: How did you decide to put the starters back in for the second half on
defense?
BB: How did we decide it? I don't know.
Q: Why did you decide to do that?
BB: I thought it was the best thing for the team at that point and the best
way to rotate the players. I don't know. |
