The biggest thing is we're not making a conscious effort to protect the ball.

Evidently, they're a pretty good football team. They beat Crescent City. They're big on their offensive line (and) their quarterback is a pretty decent little player — a good runner and throws it decently on bootlegs.

Our secondary played really well against the pass. They launched a half-dozen balls deep and didn't hit any of them. I'm real proud of them.

They're going to line up foot-to-foot and just pound it at you with their big linemen.

We had a lot of troubles in the first half. We would give up the ball cheaply, and we'd have a hard time getting it back. Lopez just pounded and pounded in the middle and did a good job keeping the ball from us.

Again, we were our own worst enemy. Again, it wasn't a lot of fun. We are just not taking care of the football, and that's all there is to it.

Somehow, someway, we've got to eliminate turnovers. We can't beat anyone the way we're beating ourselves.

We had our chances. McCoy even had Oats open a couple of times down the middle for touchdowns, but he overthrew the ball by a couple of yards both times.

Our defense was just on the field too long. After a while, you can get worn down, and maybe we did. We have got to get better on the defensive front so people can't pound the ball down our throats.