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A: It was not necessarily a health thing. It had been a cumulative health thing; he was having some
issues for three weeks that we felt was not allowing him to play the way that he’s capable of playing and
that’s the reason we went into the game with, again, these different personnel combinations.
Q: Is it more baffling or disappointing that some of these past Super Bowl champions and veterans for
your team have not been stepping up at all?
A: It’s perplexing, it’s disappointing, it’s frustrating and understand that it is to the players as well. It’s
not just the coaches looking at it. It is to the players as well. We’d all like to have multiple answers for
these things or singular, something that would turn it in the other direction. Let’s face it, we’re holding
out that you can turn this thing right back again. We’re hoping that a game at home is going to allow us
to do that. It is disappointing.
Q: It seemed like the passing offense kind of slowed down after that mid-season hump:
A: It wasn’t bad two weeks ago, now. You don’t get 52 points by not being oiled up in the passing game.
The situation last night was: I think we missed some protections. We got the quarterback hit. We
certainly did that at an untimely circumstance there, creating what, second and 25, whatever that was,
early on. We did make a couple recovery plays, but we couldn’t make enough from that hole. We had
some protection issues; we had some coverage, people getting open-issues. We had some issues with
the ball not quite exactly where it needed to be. We had penalties downfield after a big play. There’s a
lot of reasons why we’re certainly not as good as we should be.
Q: How did Ahmad Bradshaw come out of the game physically?
A: Hopefully there’s no setback.
Q: A lot of players were talking about correctable errors early in the season, but did you feel that it
was a lot of the same problems throughout the season?
A: I would say no, but certainly there are some things that have reoccurred. Each game seems to bring a
new series of things that have to be mastered.