On the game: “It was a game of two halves. We moved the ball very well the first half and played decent on defense the first half. I don’t think we made three first downs the second half. We scored…on the interception after we got it down there close. We allowed these guys to come back in the waning minutes of the football game and that’s the shame of it all. To play that hard for that long you’ve got to be able to close the game out on both sides of the football. We didn’t do that. That’s a tough one. In 30 years I’ve never lost one like that.”

On what happened on the long pass at the end of the game: “Guess we were just short on the coverage. I couldn’t say who it was. That shouldn’t happen. We were in quarter coverage – four (defenders) across deep.”

On your pass rush: “They put pressure and got the ball away a couple a times. It was a good job the first half and in the second half they played pretty well. But at the end, our inability to make first downs hurt us. We had three-and-outs early in the third quarter and just couldn’t convert. That’s the shame of it. You make a couple of first downs the game is probably a lot different.”

On worrying if a loss like this will last for young players: “I don’t know if it will set us back; it’ll be how we recover next week, how we continue to grow. This is the toughest one they’ve had this year and we’ve had some tough ones. We’ve lost six games now within a score. This is another one at the end of the game we lose, kind of like Tampa – reminded me of Tampa. We left some points on the board the first half. We threw an interception in the Red Zone, missed a field goal and those points come back to haunt you in close games.”

On any regrets of not going for it on fourth-and-one: “No, because we had a two-score lead at that point and when you’re third-and-one and go for it and don’t make it and lose a yard you don’t want to give that offense the ball on the 40. The defense was playing halfway decent until about the last two minutes of the football game. When you have a two-score lead you say, ‘why should I give these guys, if we don’t make it, the ball on the 40 yard line?’ We didn’t make it when it was third-and-one. We lost yards.”

On the young secondary guys making a mistake on the long pass that set up the winning TD: “It wasn’t a rookie over there. I’ll leave it at that.”

On Dwayne Bowe failing to control the on-side kick: “I think sometimes he takes his eye off the ball and that sometimes causes [him to miss it]. Generally he makes a catch like that. I thought he had it. They must have (knocked) it loose when he was in the air. He’s made a lot of big catches too. Those are plays you have to make along the way.” On the Chiefs defense on the Chargers winning drive: “That one shouldn’t happen. You’re in four deep (coverage) and you know what they have to do. They’ve got to score a touchdown and have timeouts. You’ve got to keep the ball in front of you and don’t want them to get vertical. I don’t know what happened.”

On any lack of confidence on the defense’s part: “I don’t think that so much. I just think we were put in a situation where we’ve got to make a play. We didn’t quite get it done on offense or defense. It starts with giving them back the ball. If we make a couple of first downs they don’t get the ball back. We couldn’t do that and that’s the shame of it. We’re sitting there with two third downs and we couldn’t convert. You make those and it’s a different game.”

On if a loss like that causes you to have concern for your job security: “No, I’ve got two more games left. I’m going to coach those and I’m going to prepare for next season.”