(Your group is so good about keeping focus this season. Was tonight just football or was it a lack of focus during the week or at times tonight during the game?) –"I wouldn't say during the week. I feel like we've been locked in as a team, taking each day as it comes, attacking each day on the practice field and in the meeting room. So I wouldn't say during the week. We just probably had a couple plays here and there that we let get the best of us and we just got to be better as a team bringing it all in, reeling it all in and finding ways to win games like this."
(This is a defense that likes to close out teams. You've had that opportunity before. I think they went 64 yards in four plays on that last drive. What happened on that last possession?) –"I have to watch the film and see what actually happened, but probably just guys not playing with each other. At the end of the day, we're only going to go as far as we take this. That's going to require us playing together, playing with each other and being on the same (page) at all times. Like I said, I'm not sure what happened but obviously we weren't on the same key, and we've just got to find ways to be better in those situations."
(Speaking of emotions I know that first half, you got the penalty. Can you take us through that?) –"Just being frustrated with myself and I let my problems be bigger than the team's problems and hurt the team in a way that I don't want to do that. Looking back on it now, just two more steps and I would've been perfectly fine, so it's just frustrating when I let my emotions get the best of me, but at the end of the day, I tried to do everything I could to combat that in the second half and after the second quarter so just got to find ways to be better as a player, as a person, as a leader, as a teammate and I will be and it's just one of those things that lapse judgment got the best of me and I will be better next time for sure in that situation. But hopefully that situation won't happen again and I'll make the sack instead of falling off of it."
