You know, I guess fortunately for me, career wise, I have never been through anything like this before and unfortunately it happened tonight. I can assure you one thing, it's not going to happen again. I guess our bye week comes at a good time to start over and look at everything that we are doing. You know, I am very disappointed obviously and embarrassed to say the least. We played a very good football team, but that wasn't us out there today so...we've got, as I said, a lot of work to do. And we'll make the most of the time this week to get things done. So I am not going to address the quarterback situation this evening. You know, injury-wise the only player that was injured and did not return was LenDale White and we have a lot of things to look at, and a short time to get things fixed...questions.

Why wasn't the team ready to play tonight?
The team? I thought the team was ready. They practiced really well this week, in a close to similar environment, despite you know, the snow. But I thought we were ready to play. And the turnovers, obviously you can't turn the football over like that.

Why has this team struggled with adversity?
You know, things have turned for the worst awfully quick for this franchise and it's my job to get it straightened out. And that's what I'm going to do and that's what I'm going to continue to do. We have a lot of talented players in that room, but as I told them, whether you're a first year rookie or a 15 year vet, like Kevin [Kaesviharn] or Kerry [Collins], this just doesn't happen. It's not good and doesn't get any worse, but if we've bottomed out here then all we can move is up and that's what we're going to do.

Jeff, are you worried that going 0-6 like this could cost you your job?
You know, I'm going to keep fighting. I'm going to just keep working. You know the staff didn't forget how to coach in the off season, you know, it doesn't happen. You don't forget how to coach overnight. What we have to do is find a way to win a ball game.

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You know, again, I'm going to keep fighting. As the staff and as the players are. We're just going to keep working. Fortunately, maybe we'll get some people back. We're hurt in the secondary and we're trial by fire for a lot of the young DBs. You know, that's part of it. We'll be better off because of it.

Do you expect big changes in the bye week?
I'm not going to go into changes now. We're going to look at everything real hard and you know we got to get back to doing something well . . . in all three phases.

Last week you guys rushed four guys almost the whole time, and it seemed like you did the same against the Patriots today. Why not a willingness to change things up?
We did, we pressured a little bit, got caught both times and we also gave up a touchdown pass on a screen tonight. And Tom did a good job of getting the ball out. We were concerned about their screen. They are very [good] at executing it. You know, we got pressure, just didn't...you know, we gave up big plays and turned the football over to them.

Do you think they ran up the score at all, 45 nothing in the 3rd quarter?
No, that was their plan going in, why are they going to change their plan?

Do you think your team gave up at all? Or effort was an issue?
No, they played. We didn't tackle well in the second half, they had a couple runs that we had a couple linebackers out of position, but I wouldn't say lack of effort. I mean it's hard to go out there and play with emotion, the same emotion, when you are down by 45. But I didn't see a lack of effort. I saw frustration, but not a lack of effort.

What was the demeanor like in the locker room, Jeff?
It was less than celebratory.

Losing the Super Bowl is tough, but is this a low point in your career?
This is difficult. This is not an easy one, but sometimes it takes this, so hopefully there's some good in this and we get back on our feet, and we find a way to win a game.

How come so many drops, was it lack of concentration with the guys? You know, I don't know, they caught it. They were catching it. We must have dropped the first seven or eight passes. Who knows, you make a couple of those catches and you flip the field and who knows. There is a lot more than just those, there are a lot of things that we got to get working on, so . . .