BB: Well, obviously that was a game of big
plays tonight, and Denver made more than we did. Congratulate Mike
[Shanahan] and the Broncos, they're a good football team. They earned the
right to play here tonight and they played well, so I give them credit for
the way they performed, what they did, and for winning the game. Obviously,
we're disappointed. We weren't able to make the plays that we needed to make
to win, and that's why we didn't win. There's really not much more to say.
Q: Could you talk about the turnovers, Bill?
It's pretty uncharacteristic of you guys in the playoffs.
BB: It's hard to win when you give the ball
away.
Q: What did you see on Samuel's pass
interference call? Did you get a good look at that?
BB: I think I saw what the side judge saw.
Q: And it wasn't the side judge who threw
the flag...
BB: No...
Q: ...was it?
BB: ...it sure wasn't. So you'd have to go ask
them what they saw. I mean, I don't know.
Q: If Asante came up to you and said, 'What
could I have done differently?' could you tell him anything?
BB: I'd tell him the same thing the side judge
told him.
Q: Coach, could you talk about Ben Watson
coming down and preventing that touchdown with Champ Bailey? That was a hell
of an effort on his part.
BB: It was. It sure was. Great effort. Yes.
Q: Bill, still, the three championships in
four years, two in a row, what did you tell these guys? I mean, they
certainly have authored a pretty good body of work?
BB: Whatever I talk to them about we'll keep
between me and the team. That's what a team's for.
Q: But what can you say about the body of
work the club's put together?
BB: There are a lot of players on this team
that weren't on the other teams, so I'll just talk about this team: I was
proud of their effort all year. I thought they fought hard, they fought
through a lot of adversity in tough situations, we just didn't play well
enough tonight. Denver played better, that's why they won. Give them credit.
Q: Heading into this game did you feel like
you were hitting your stride?
BB: I thought we needed to play our best game
tonight to win, and we didn't. That's what I thought.
Q: You guys had four fumbles last week and
covered all of them. That had to be talked about this week, that it could
cost you to do it again, right?
BB: Right.
Q: Was there work on that? Was that a point
of emphasis this week at all?
BB: Whatever it was, that's the way it turned
out. So it doesn't really matter.
Q: [Inaudible]
BB: [Inaudible] ...you can just talk about the
whole team. We didn't make enough plays to win.
Q: Could you talk about how at the start of
the third quarter you scored, you stopped them, you're driving, you looked
like you were ready to take the lead, and then the game-changing
interception [inaudible]. At that point you had to feel that you were
getting some things going there.
BB: I thought it was competitive all night. I
think it was a game of big plays. They made more than we did. I don't know
how else to put it.
Q: Bill, did the coaches upstairs think that
the ball went out of the end zone to take a chance there to challenge it?
BB: The ball definitely went out.
Q: Out of the end zone?
BB: It went out of his hands. They reviewed the
play, go ask them. Go ask them. Anything else? That's it?
Q: Bill, did Brady look unusually or
uncharacteristically [inaudible] to you at all in the early part of the
game...?
BB: No. Anything else? |
