“It was just a game of our mistakes and not being able to execute the things we practiced all week, ... I thought we were evenly matched. It was just a ho-hum performance.”
“I really thought we were going to go into halftime with a shot at winning, but we gave the ball away a couple of times and let their backup quarterback throw two long passes,”
“We treated this like it was a playoff game. At this point, the pressure is off. Last year we were trying to get that one win, but we don't have to worry about that now. We can just relax because we have nothing to lose.”
“At the beginning of the year, I wanted to be realistic. I didn't think special teams was going to win games for us, but I didn't want to let it lose games for us, either.”
“You start to lose confidence in yourself, ... All of a sudden, everybody's holding their breath a little bit when the special teams take the field, saying, 'Oh my gosh, what's going to happen?'”
