They're firing coaches left and right in the league. I had to take the money. It's not like teams are showing any loyalty to coaches, right?

This game just shows you where we are as a team. A young, inexperienced team needs to learn how to keep control of the game when they have the lead and finish a game.

I think for both of us, the way we entered the league and what we had to do to have success helped us become coaches. We weren't superstars. We really had to work.

Dixon came to my office after the game and was the first to apologize to me and to the team. He just got frustrated, thought he was fouled. He really felt badly about it.

I think it just shows you where we are as a team. We are a young, inexperienced team that is trying to learn to finish a game. You saw some of our maturity and inexperience come out when the game got tight and got frustrating. We almost gave this game away. Hopefully we learn from this.

We didn't show up, and there's no reason for that. I know we played last night, but to come out and just not be ready to play, that shouldn't happen.

I am encouraged by the fact that we've been in two games against two very good teams, we had control of the game. When you have the lead, you don't drop your heads. That's when you go even harder.

We weren't sharp with our execution, including me. We didn't work hard enough to get the ball in the spots where it needed to go.

That city should be more excited about the Super Bowl than Nate McMillan coming back.