FOXBORO - Chad Brown addressed the fact he was deactivated for Sunday night's game with the Bills.

"I wasn’t informed until right before the game but I knew we had some injuries and guys were on the bubble whether they’d play or not so it comes down to a numbers thing. I don’t think anybody’s happy about being deactivated but as I said many times I come here with no ego. If that’s the role I need to take, that’s the role I need to take."

Patrick Pass on fumbling the ball against the Bills after his hamstring gave out: "(For anyone who wants to criticize him for dropping the ball) tell them to carry something in their hand and have someone hit them in the back of the leg real, real hard. That (expletive) hurts."

Corey Dillon on his 18-carry, 72-yard performance against the Bills: "In situations like that, you're unsure how you'll perform but once I got out there, believe me ... I've been doing this I was six years old. This is nothing. This is what I do, what I get paid to do. In that situation I just had to tough it out, block out the pain and do the best I could. Playing with pain is nothing new. I've played with worse injuries than I have now."

Matt Light was in the locker room without a cast on his broken right leg.