Ashley Lelie Quotations

We didn't want to leave it in Brady's hands. The defense did a great job slowing him down, and then we did our job.

We didn't want to leave it in Brady's hands, ... The defense did a great job slowing him down, and then we did our job.

I blocked well, I was physical, I didn't let myself be guarded, ... They didn't do a great job covering me, I just didn't make the plays like the easy catches or the read with Jake downfield.

We can, I'm not going to say if we are or not. But their front seven is back healthy and that's going to make their defensive backs play a lot better.

He's definitely been playing a lot smarter. He's not trying to make every single play. It's a credit to him understanding and accepting his role on the team. He puts up wins for us when he plays smart like that.

Jake on the run is awesome. I think he's one of the best at doing that. All I know was Jake was outside the pocket and he threw it to me. I just threw my hands up and gave myself a chance to make the play. It was really gutsy, but we needed that. We needed to score more than three points.

We were 13-3 and we won the (AFC) West. But 20 years from now, when people look back, no one will remember that we got this far.

Whether it's first-and-short or fourth-and-long, he goes hard on every play. He makes the big plays, and he blocks for running backs. He's a complete player.

You can tell by his demeanor that he lets all that stuff roll off his back. He can handle it. That's just his personality.

We've got a bad taste in our mouth. We get a chance to hit them. This is a good challenge for us.

It was the way he went about his business. I can take that into my game.

That's when we're working at our best, and that's how we win games. And for us to get to the next level, we definitely have to accomplish that.

This is really going to help us and get us finely tuned.

They still have to play us Saturday. So whatever they did in the past doesn't make a difference.

A lot of people right now say my production is low. Actually, anyone who looks at the tape knows our system dictates that, because we're a running team.

It's a complex offense, because of all the checks and the reads. I was struggling, too, but Jake's a quarterback, and in this town. I think 's harder on him.

It might have been an ugly game, but it was against a Super Bowl team. We knew it would be ugly; we just had to make more plays than they did.

It's not like it was that Kansas City game last year, which was more effort and me not knowing my stuff, ... It was just, I was in position to make plays and I didn't make them.

It's not an insult. Because any NFL quarterback has to go out and manage the game and not lose it. It's just that Jake made a couple of mistakes here and there in his career and the NFL kind of got on him for that. They still want to get on him for that now.

I'm not sure how much that affected us, being down. I think it might have put a little bit of fire in us coming out in the third quarter. People started realizing the season could be over if we didn't get something done.

If I would have come in and watched this film and not seen myself, even after the drops, just going hard and competing, I probably would lose a little confidence, ... But I was still trying to make plays, and that kind of boosts my confidence up.

If we want to win games, we have to improve on third downs and in the red zone. It's as simple as that. I don't think we did that great (Sunday). We did better than last week, but it wasn't enough.

He puts up Ws for us when he plays smart.

A lot of media are going to point the finger at him, but this was not Jake's fault.

The effort was there. I was physical. I didn't bust any big plays. It was the little things I kind of messed up on.