CB BRANDON CARR
On the game: “I’m confused. It’s like all of the wind and all of the energy got taken out of us. We were up, we were battling and then that’s how it has pretty much been the entire season. Now that we are getting better we are in games, but we just can’t finish them.”

On second half struggles: “We’re still trying to figure it out (second half struggles). That’s been one of our keys this whole season. Guys just have to grow up and bring that same energy from the first half to the second. I guess you have to find in yourself whatever motivates you and keep on going.”

On the defensive game plan: “We were trying to get a good rush on the quarterback and make him throw the ball out there and then obviously to stop the run. We were trying to go out there, have fun and get after the quarterback. Make him beat us for the most part.”

S JARRAD PAGE
On turning things around: “We have to win these games. It happens too much, we’ve got to win. There’s nothing to say except that we have to start winning the games at the end of the game instead of lose. Until we do that…that’s what’s going to fix it.”

On the 42-yard completion to WR Vincent Jackson in the fourth quarter: “He caught the ball and that was the problem. He caught the football; I’m not going to get into what happened. I’ll have to watch the tape.”

DE TAMBA HALI
On the last three minutes of the game: “When you lose, I don’t care what you did before that during the game. If you’re in a war and you kill everybody, but lose the war it doesn’t matter. You lost. We have to take it like men and come back on Monday to prepare for a good team.”

On if a loss like this can deter a young team: “Yes, because we’re trying to find a way to win and for all we knew that game was already won. To lose a game that way is hard. It’s hard on the coaches, it’s hard on the players, it’s hard on the organization and everybody feels it. From anyone’s perspective we were winning this game hands down with all the turnovers we caused.”

K CONNOR BARTH
On his two missed field goals: “The first one I took for granted. It was 34 yards and it was a chip shot. I did what I shouldn’t have done and that’s no excuse because this is my eighth game now and I’m not a rookie anymore. I put this on my shoulders today. On the 50-yarder the conditions were perfect. The offense got me down there, I had my chance and the wind was at my back. You couldn’t have asked for anything else. Unfortunately I didn’t put it through, but I’ll get it the next time.”

G BRIAN WATERS
On the game: “Again, this is just one of those things we’re going to have to learn from. You can’t get comfortable going against a football team that has the ability to score points in a short amount of time. We did everything to allow them back into it. Offensively, it seemed like we couldn’t do anything. We might have had two first downs, maybe. On special teams, we just didn’t do the right things we needed to do to help our defense out. The defense held on to it as long as they could and we really just didn’t do anything offensively and on special teams to help our defense out. I think they played really well. I think we still have to go back to the drawing board; we still have to figure out how to win football games.

Why is that the case? You got nine first downs in the first quarter, you sustain long drives, and like you said, you just couldn’t hold on to it: “This is football. There’s going to be times where they’re going to do some things right and we’re going to do some things right. We definitely, the offense, were more effective in the first half than in the second half. Again, they did some things, they didn’t change much, we just didn’t have the ball much. We really just didn’t get started, we didn’t get first downs. Outside of the score, and really the score was set up by a good defensive play, we really didn’t do anything today. It’s always going to fall back to the same thing – execution. If they execute better than us and we don’t get first downs, that’s what they’re going to do. A good thing they did for themselves was they stayed in the game. We allowed them to stay in the game by continuing to make mistakes and not being productive.”

Right now, does this game feel worse than any other loss? “No. There’s been a number of games that felt about the same. But it’s very disappointing, the fact that when you have the game, you know, score-wise, when you’re in the lead at that particular point and you feel like you have some things going well for you. If you make a play here or there then you feel like the game should be over, and we never made those plays.”

Are you starting to feel like you guys are losers? Like you can’t win games? “No, man. I don’t believe in that. Our record has shown us to be a losing football team this year, and that’s what we will be. We will be, regardless of how we play right now; our record will still have us being a losing football team this year. The fact that we come out to work every day, the fact that we’re not like other teams in this league and point fingers and try to put the blame on other people, is a fact that it’s something I can be proud of. We knew coming into this season that there were going to be ups and downs, we just didn’t know there were going to be so many downs. But we feel like we are doing some right things and we’re going the right way.”