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BRONCOS POST-GAME QUOTES Click on link for Broncos Players
HEAD COACH MIKE SHANAHAN Opening statement “I’d like to congratulate the
Pittsburgh Steelers. I thought they played an excellent football
game. Anytime you go into somebody’s backyard and you beat the first,
second and third teams, and you do it throughout the playoffs, you can be very
impressed with how they played and how they handled themselves. I take my
hat off to them.” On the Broncos
Performance “Anytime you have four turnovers
it’s hard to win football games. This is a team game. You do it as a
team, offense, defense and special teams – I think we got beat in all areas
today.” On QB Jake Plummer’s Second Quarter
Interception “We go through the reads and certain
progressions, and obviously when there are mistakes made you correct them there,
and you’re hoping that as the game goes on there are not any more
mistakes. But, you’d like to have that one back if you could. I
think he [Plummer] was frustrated. Obviously, when you throw interceptions
you’re frustrated, that’s part of the game, and you’ve got to try to just
overcome those mistakes. “ On Pittsburgh’s Game
Control “I thought they just did a great
job. Anytime they’re six-for-seven on third downs in the first half.
I think they were four-for-five in the red zone. The way they controlled
the tempo of the game…once you did have the ball you had to try to take
advantage of it. They did a good job stopping us defensively in the first
half. They just played better and coached better than we did.
“ On Bringing Pressure on
Defense “Like I said, when you make third
downs you control the tempo of the football game, and you can’t get them off the
field. When you play the way they did, not only on third downs and in the
red zone, you’re going to be in for a long day, not only against them but
against any football team.“ On Pittsburgh QB Ben
Roethlisberger’s Performance “I thought Ben did a great job of
throwing the ball out in time. I thought there were some great catches,
some great timed routes. You have to really take your hat off to their
offense and their wide receivers, they made some big-time plays, with some big
pressure, and it kept some drives going.” Decision to Kick a Field Goal
instead of Going For a Touchdown [2nd
Quarter] “It was third down and eight or ten,
I forgot what it was, but anytime you have a dime defense in there and we were
just two yards short from going in the end zone. If we would have made it,
it would have been a great call. But we were two yards short.
Anytime you have your base personnel on the field, and you’re going against a
lot of defensive backs, every once in a while you take that chance, and
unfortunately we wound up a couple yards short.” On CB Domonique Foxworth’s
Performance “We knew they would go after
Domonique more than [CB] Champ Bailey. They get paid for a living and
might go after a young guy rather than an experienced guy. Domonique has
had a heck of a year. He went against a couple of good wide receivers and
we put a lot of pressure on him today, and he stepped up and got it
done.”
“I told our team I’m very proud of
what they’ve done and how they played. The only teams that are happy at
the end of the season are the Super Bowl teams, so you feel horrible about that
missed opportunity. You work for that prize, that trophy. Anything
short of that is very disappointing. played better than we did. To
do what they’ve done three weeks in a row against three excellent football
teams, playing the way they did is really an
accomplishment.” On Feeling he had a Good Game Plan
for this Game “I did. In the first half it
doesn’t take a whole lot. I think we had the ball four times. All of
a sudden you have a couple turnovers in there, maybe three times and we threw
one right at the end of the first half, and we had one turnover against a team
that controls the tempo of the game like they did, and controls the clock, you
have to take advantage of once you’re in the red zone to get touchdowns.
When you have two turnovers, you’re playing catch-up for the majority of the
day.” On Whether the Interceptions were
the Result of Pressure or Mistakes “That one at halftime was [the result of a mistake] – he [Plummer] thought the corner[back] was going to go into the post route, and he came off and made the play. You’re going to have some plays like that, but you have to still work through it. But, I give them credit, we haven’t been turning the football over many times this year. We did turn it over, and I’d like to give them some credit as well.”
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