Stakes Quotations

We're going to miss blocks as an offensive line. We're never going to be perfect. There's so much going on. But we had some mistakes that cause you to lose a football game and we also played in a way that gives a team a chance to beat us with our attitude and with our physical style.

We're going to make our mistakes this season, but the key will be in trying to limit those. We want to make the routine plays when we have a chance to make them.

We're going to make mistakes. That's just the way it is. Hopefully you learn from those mistakes and don't make them as frequently as the year goes on.

We're going to have to play three complete periods (today). We'll see a better team (today), a team that will capitalize on your mistakes and jump all over you.

We're going to have to do that. I thought about some things that we need to do. We're just going to bring 'Shan out of the game to give her some rest regardless. Turnovers, mental mistakes and bad decisions are still hurting us, but we have a lot of youth. We told the kids what they have to do is keep a positive mind, a healthy mind, to do what they have to do to bring their game up.

Usually in games like this, mistakes will make the difference. We came out early and scored a couple of runs. We were able to put the ball in play and they made some mistakes.

We're so close. We made a few mistakes and then they had a good hit. If we don't make those errors, the hit wouldn't hurt us. We'll get there.

We're going to try and make every play. Errors and making mistakes are part of the game. I don't think errors are going to keep us down. We just have to try and make the next one.

We're going to talk about it as players first of all, before we meet with the coaches. That's not the way we play defense. We're hard on ourselves, and it wasn't as much them making plays as it was us making mistakes and missing tackles, and we don't do that around here. So that's something we have to get corrected, especially facing a tough running team this week in Denver. We don't do that stuff.

We're going to go back and look at tape and try to find the mistakes that we made tonight and fix them. We're going to continue to work and get ready for the next round.