WR DWAYNE BOWE
On his TD catches: “They were great throws by the quarterback and the linemen protected very, very well, so I want to give the linemen credit for that and the quarterback. It was a simple fade route. Tyler looked at me, gave me the wink, so I knew to take it over the top and he made some perfect throws. I had to do what D-Bowe does, make big plays.”

On the offensive play in the 3rd quarter: “Coming out, we had penalties that set us back and right now, we don’t need [that]. When we come out in the 3rd quarter, we have to come out all pistons firing; throwing the ball, catching the ball, running the ball. Those penalties set us back and the momentum shifted a bit. That’s the one thing we have to get better at is coming out at the half.”

How do you keep your spirits up after all these losses? “We just watch film and see that we really are getting better. But it’s little things like penalties and dropped balls and mis-reads that really cost us the game. If we eliminate one each game then, in the long run, we’ll know we are a good team, we can get better.”

LB ROCKY BOIMAN
On the game: “It’s disappointing because we thought we were making strides in the last couple weeks. Right now, I know, everybody is sick of talking about the strides we’re making, we need to win a game. We missed some opportunities and didn’t get up the field on third down and didn’t hold them to field goals in the Red Zone. Defense takes responsibility for a lot of that.”

On his comfort level on both special teams and defense: “I’m starting to feel more comfortable out there with the schemes and everything. Every day is just going to get better and better. We’ve got the pieces to be good here. If everyone can keep working we can get there. This one’s tough.”

On the difference maker today: “A few plays here and there and a few penalties here and there. . . . Like Herm said, we aren’t a good enough team right now to overcome some of those things. We have to be right on point with everything. All I can say is that we have to work hard to get better and better and come out next week and try against Buffalo.”

T DAMION MCINTOSH
On what kept the Chiefs from winning the game today: “As a team we aren’t going out there and imposing our will on these other teams and playing well all the way through. Once we do that we’ll be able to start winning some games. Until then we are going to have games like this that are close and lose it at the end. These are things that we’ve got to learn.”

On the call to punt on fourth-and-two in the 4th quarter: “Last week he wanted to go for two so that’s what (we did). He’s the leader of this team and he has confidence for us to go. If he decided ‘Let’s not,’ then that’s what he decided and that’s what we’re going to do as a team.”

TE BRAD COTTAM
After appearing to make some progress, was this a step back today? “I don’t think it was a step back because we did good things. I really don’t think we can step backwards. New Orleans is a great team, did a great job on offense, put up a lot of points. We just need to score a lot more.”

G BRIAN WATERS
On the return of RB Larry Johnson: “I think he ran tough today: I think he ran physical and I think that the little offensive wrinkle that we showed today gives us the ability to do both things (power run and spread) we want to do. We just have to do a better job executing. Not to take anything away from them, but there were some things that we just didn’t do right compared to things that they did to us.”

On the frustrations of losing: “It’s always frustrating when you lose. We get paid to win football games. When it is all said and done 15 years from now people won’t look back and blame this reason or that reason or say that ‘they came close many times.’ That means nothing. We have to win football games and we can’t use the excuse that we are close. Close is not good enough. Honestly, if guys want to continue to live the lives they are living, and that goes from the top down, and if we want to stay employed then we better go and win some football games because things can change real quick.”

DT GLENN DORSEY
On the game: “It’s really frustrating. There were some things that we could have done differently. We were hanging with them and making some plays, but it always comes down to a couple of plays that we should have made that end up determining the outcome of the game. It was a tough one.”

On the difference in today’s game: “The offense came out and played good. We just didn’t get enough stops on defense and that’s the bottom line. It’s our job to put pressure on the quarterback and we didn’t do much of that today. You have to go back and watch film, try to correct it for next week and get it right. That’s all that you can do.”

On losing: “It’s tough to lose. We hate losing and we’re sick of this feeling after just about every game that we’ve played this year. When we watch film we see the mistakes that we made and what we could have done differently that would make the outcome different. It gives us some motivation to get it right because we know we can play ball. The last couple of weeks have come down to a few plays that we could have done differently and those have determined the outcome of the game.”