david dieHl - New York Giants

A: Of course, there’s a chance. There’s always a chance, but I just don’t know what’s going to
happen. But there’s a chance that I could be back here.
Q: Do you think the way the season is ending for the entire team makes it less likely because
when there’s losing like this, they tend to want to make changes?
A: Yeah. Definitely. You’re right about that, but where are they going to make the changes is the
question. There’s no individual, there’s no aspect of the team this year that stood out. If you
want to talk about the pass rush… Well maybe we didn’t get 50 sacks like we did last year, but
was the offense playing well? Was the special teams playing… Like where? There’s nowhere that
was up to the standards that we set last year. If they’re going to be making changes, it has to be
wholesale changes. Everybody has to leave. There has to be changes for everybody because
nobody played above average this year.
Q: Is there any kind of frustration for you that if you leave after this game you’re leaving with
the pass rush where it is instead of leaving when you and Tuck and JPP had a good year?
A: There’s no frustration at all. I’m very happy about the things that we’ve accomplished here.
Every year is not going to be a Super Bowl year. Every year is not going to be a double-digit sack
year and that’s just the way life is, that’s the way football is. The one thing that I do know is we
gave very good effort and if the ball would have bounced our way, then things would have been
completely different and I’m telling you this because we sit there in those meeting rooms every
single day and watch every single play for hours and so we know exactly what it is that’s going
on. We know what is going wrong. We know things that fell our way last year just didn’t fall our
way this year. Next year, if I’m here, then things are going to be different. Next year, if I go
somewhere else and you see me put up 15 sacks, you’ll be like, ‘Oh, what happened?’ Well it
was just my year and that I’m confident in that.
Q: Are you confident that you and the rest of your linemates were put in the same positions to
succeed as you were last year?
A: Well, we were the same positions, but we were just attacked differently. I think when the
rush was there, the coverage wasn’t there and when the coverage was there, the rush wasn’t
there. So I think we weren’t married. We weren’t in synch with each other. We weren’t in tune
and a lot of times we were right there, but the quarterback got the ball off or they were
throwing the ball quick or they were slide protecting or they were doing all types of things and it
just didn’t happen for us. But everybody has to be in tune and everybody has to be… I hate to
use the word, but married together and playing in synch and we just weren’t doing that this
year.
Q: Whose fault is that?
A: Maybe the opponent we were playing. Maybe it’s their fault. Maybe they figured us out
pretty well. The effort was there. That’s pretty much all I can say is that we were out there
hustling, we were out there trying and it just did not work out or it hasn’t worked out to this
point.