(Opening statement)- “I felt like the guys fought throughout the whole game.  At the end of the day, what killed us were the turnovers and the mistakes that we made.  This team is very difficult to beat, the Ravens are very difficult to beat when you play flawless football, when you play mistake-free football.  When you turn the ball over as many times as we did, it makes it really, really difficult.  With that being said, I thought we had other opportunities after the turnovers to come back down and put ourselves in position at the end there to at least be a score away, and we just weren’t able to do it.  I respect the way these guys worked all week and the way they played today.  When you play a team like Baltimore with all of the different things they can do, it makes it incredibly difficult to overcome our errors.”
(On why they didn’t use timeouts when driving inside two minutes at the end of the first half)- “What we were looking to do there is we had gotten the first down and couldn’t get another first down, so I thought we would have the three shots at the end zone.  The plays ended up, because they were extended plays, taking longer.  Typically in that situation, you would have the three shots to do it and you don’t give their offense a chance to go back on the field and try to convert something right before that half.  It was twofold of getting the three opportunities, which we didn’t do, and also not giving them an opportunity to do anything at the end of the half.”
(On why they tried an onside kick to start the second half)- “I felt that we had a chance for it.  They were leaving early on that side and Brad (Seely) had felt really strongly about it.  We had executed it really well during the week of practice and we took a look at it a couple times to make sure that what we had seen prior to us playing was still the same, and it was.  They were leaving early on that side, which if we get a good kick and execute it the right way, we had a chance to recover it.  I felt good about it too based on what we saw after our other kickoffs.”
(On if they tried the onside kick because they did not get a touchdown before the end of the first half)- “It’s like any of the plays that you have up, whether it’s the Mohamed (Massaquoi) play or any of the ones we’ve had throughout the course of the season.  You look for a certain look and then if it is there, that’s when you run it.  There’s upside to all of those plays and then there is a downside to all of those plays.  It’s really based on, ‘Do we have the opportunity to make this play successful?’  If it’s there, we are going to call it.  It was there, we just didn’t do a good enough job with it.”
(On why Joe Haden let the onside kick go out of bounds)- “I don’t know if it went 10 yards Tony (Grossi), I couldn’t tell from where I was.  But ideally, you want to bat it back in and see what happens.”
(On if Massaquoi should have tried to bat away the interception in the first quarter)- “Yes, you have to do everything that you possibly can.  If the throw is not there or the decision is not there, the receiver sometimes has to take it from a bad decision and leave it at that, if you can, to break up the ball as opposed to a bad decision which results in a turnover.  I couldn’t tell how far away he was from the receiver to the point of contact, but that’s something that he has done before and we saw Josh (Cribbs) do it last week.  Yes, you want to break up the ball if you can.”
(On the decision making and clock management being handled questionably the last few weeks)- “I don’t know if I agree with that, I think that’s a matter of opinion.  As we are going through it and we are talking through the situations, that’s the thought process.  Get the points that are available from our perspective and not give their offense, which is a really good offense, a chance to go down and score.  If you remember last year against Pittsburgh, they scored with, I think, 16 seconds on the clock at the end of the half.  Those things happen.  They hit a chunk, they had two timeouts left and they can throw it anywhere on the field.  The thought process is score, take your points and not give them a chance to do it.”
(On if Peyton Hillis got hurt on a hit early in the first quarter)- “Yes, he got dinged up there early Marla (Ridenour).  I thought Mike (Bell) did a good job there of coming in, filling in and he ran the ball tough and physical.  He had some opportunities in the passing game, which he did a nice job with as well.  That was really the situation with Peyton.”
(On if Colt McCoy did not see Ed Reed on his interceptions)- “The thing about Ed Reed Tony (Grossi) is that there is no one place where Ed Reed is.  Ed looks at what is happening and he takes chances.  We talked about it significantly, I thought we did a good job of trying to mimic it the best you can with a player like that because there’s not a consistent pattern with where he’s going to be.  He may be in 3-Deep coverage and swoop to the flat and get a pick.  It’s something he’s done, he’s done about as well as any safety has done at any point in terms of his ability to guess right and make you pay.  It’s one of those learning experiences for Colt and he’s got a lot of guys.”
(On where the team is with one game to go)- “I think we’re in the same place that we’ve been, which is trying to win consistently.  Part of that process is not having self-inflicted wounds, not doing things that make it more difficult to win games.  It becomes more difficult the better the opponent is and you play a team like Baltimore with as many weapons as they have with as many things that they can do when you give them opportunities.  When they’re plus one, they’re 75-3.  When you go plus three or whatever they finished up, the odds are slim.”
(On if the weather affected the way McCoy threw the ball)- “I don’t think the ball was affected that dramatically on either side, in terms of throwing the football.  There was a slight wind and it was a little bit cold, but we had worked outside throughout the week in temperatures and really situations that were, I thought, a lot worse than what we played in today.  I don’t think that was a big factor, no.”
(On if defenses are adjusting to them and if they are having trouble adjusting to other teams’ defenses)- “I think it’s a function of we had plenty of opportunities.  We were down in the red zone and we made a mistake.  When you make mistakes, points come off the board, field position dramatically changes and momentum changes.  I’m not sure exactly what yard line we were on that last interception, but we had a chance there for at least three to put us in probably an onside kick situation where you have the chance to get the ball back and see what happens.  I think twice today in the red zone or on the fringe, we gave away those opportunities.”
(On why McCoy did some uncharacteristic things from what he has done so far this season)- “I really thought there was only one situation where we had to call timeout because of not being in the right situation.  The other one was a check that we had and there was a miscommunication there.  He’s played very effectively and done a lot of really good things from an operation standpoint.  There’s going to be some of this and you’re playing against a defense that not only can rush the passer and generate pressure that way, but have multiple, multiple looks.  Considering the amount of things that he had to prepare for this week and the amount of mistakes that he made from that perspective, I’d still say he set a pretty high bar.  There’s going to be some of that.  He’s a young guy and the great thing about Colt is he learns from these things and they usually don’t happen again.  I didn’t feel like throughout the course of the game he wasn’t in control of what we were trying to achieve.”
(On if they had the touchdown pass play in for a while)- “Yes, we’ve had that in for quite some time and it hit today.  A lot of these plays that we run different weeks are things that you work into the rotation and then it gets back to, do we have the look?  Do we like the situation?  I think they’ve been pretty successful for us.”
(On if Mohamed Massaquoi ever played quarterback)- “I don’t know if he did or not.  I think with probably as athletic as he is, he probably did at some point.”

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