Projo Pats Blog

FOXBORO - With the late ending to Sunday night's game, we were hard-pressed to get much postgame reaction into this morning's paper.

Here are some quotes gathered from the postgame.

BILLS COACH MIKE MULARKEY

"I'm very disappointed (in the loss). You’ve got to learn how to finish games off. We played well enough for that long, but against teams of this caliber that have been in big games, you can’t give them a breath and we did, and they took advantage of it. It’s not surprising.

(Did you feel like you weren’t finishing them off all game long?)
"No, I felt like we were doing a pretty good job. We came in at half time and we knew it was going to be a fight back and forth. It played out exactly like I thought it was. I never had that feeling once, not until the end of the game when I thought we had a let down."

(On Colvin’s sack and fumble recovery)
"We had a breakdown and they took advantage of it. I’m not going to point fingers at anybody. If you want to point fingers, point them at me."

(Are you disappointed with the breakdowns at key situations?)
"I’m actually proud of these guys. I’m frustrated for them, not at them. I think we took a step forward tonight. We overcame a lot of adversity coming into this game where everyone and their brother counted us out and until the last five minutes, I was pretty proud of how we reacted to all that adversity."

BILLS QUARTERBACK KELLY HOLCOMB

(On fourth down and 7 at end of game)
"I was trying to get the ball to Roscoe (Parrish). I thought I was going to have him pre-snap, but then the corner sloughed off and the safety came over and they were doubling him. If I threw the ball, it was going to be intercepted. My thinking was to get Eric (Moulds) the ball and let him try and make a play."

(Do you chalk up the way the game finished to the fact they are two-time defending world champs?)
"We helped them with the fumble. The fumble was the game. If we could have just taken a little bit of time off the clock; the way we were going up and down the field, I think we could have got some more time off the clock. When you fumble the ball and leave them that short of field, they are the world champions and they are going to make plays. That was a big play."

(On offensive holding on 3rd and 5 in fourth quarter)
"Yeah, I don’t understand that. At the crucial part of the game, it was a critical first down. Eric made a good play getting open and we’ll have to look at it on film. Obviously it was blatant, but that’s a tough situation to call that. I think you’ve got to let them play."

ERIC MOULDS, BILLS WIDE RECEIVER

(On pass interference call)
I don’t think I did, but the official saw something I didn’t see. Even the New England guy was saying we got away with one that time. It was a crucial time in the game and at that point, I thought we would have been able to just play.

(On fourth and eight play at end of game)
The play was designed to make them suck up on me, but they didn’t. I felt that I could have broke a tackle and made a play. They did a great job of running to the ball. It was a play we would have liked to have back. It’s a situation where we can say what we should have done, but we didn’t.

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