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Green Bay vs. New York Jets - Postgame Quotes - Green Bay
Regular Season - Packers Lose 20-16
HEAD COACH MIKE SHERMAN POSTGAME COMMENTS:
overall impressions of the game: "We lost this game because we had too many
penalties, didn't convert third downs and dropped balls.
"We had too many penalties...costly ones in the red zone, costly ones on the
big plays. We'll have to fix that.
"As I told them (team), in spite of this loss, I'm disappointed, but not
discouraged.
"I feel for the guys. I asked them too play a tough football game -- I
thought they did. I asked them to give a great effort out there -- I thought
they gave us that. I feel disappointed for them because they really put
everything into this ballgame to prove everybody wrong.
"I was happy to see how our defense rose to the occasion."
on Brett Favre: "I told him at the end, he's as good a two-minute man as
there is in football.
"We knew tht Brett was going to be a little bit rusty, but a rusty Brett
Favre is better than many people who are full speed...so I"ll take that any
day."
QUARTERBACK BRETT FAVRE
on his performance: "I thought for the most part, I threw the ball okay. It
(elbow) really never affected me on any throws, just one towards the end."
on the loss: "I missed a few throws, we dropped a few balls, had a few
penalties -- that's really it.
"I'm never pleased with a loss, I'm not today. But I know I can get better,
I know our team can get better. I know defensively we played great;
offensively we have a ways to go."
on the final play: "Sometimes you win those in the end, sometimes you
don't. When they work, they're always good calls; when they don't they,
they're always bad calls. But I don't think it was a bad call.
"I was nervous, worried, but felt comfortable in that situation. You can't
win them all, but I'd like to think I left everything on the field."
on the team: "The Jets are a good football team, I don't want to take
anything away from them. They deserved to win, just as much as we would
have, but I like the direction we're going in.
"The direction he's (Mike Sherman) going in, is the right direction. We
just all have to believe in it."
LINEBACKER NATE WAYNE
on the defense's performance: "I think today we had more confidence going
into this game. We played with a lot of confidence. Guys were having fun,
flying around, making plays. There were a few mistakes here and there, but
the Jets made plays. They did things, too. So we just have to come back,
watch the film tomorrow and see where we made mistakes and just build from
them."
on his personal performance: "I was just doing my job, trying to have fun
and make plays. I made some mistakes, but you have to go back and look at
the film."
SAFETY DARREN SHARPER
on his first quarter interception: "We had looked at that formation a lot
of times during the week. I had my quarter of the field and the receiver
came that way. I saw him try to sit down. I think him and Testaverde had a
miscommunication, because Chrebet went one way, and he threw it another way.
I just read the quarterback - read Chrebet and thought he would sit down,
and I just jumped it when I saw Vinny throw it and held on to it. I wish I
could have gotten into the end zone, looking back on it, to put more points
on the board for us."
on the defense's effort: "I think the defense fought real hard. We have to
eliminate a lot of the big plays. That's one of the things about playing
defense - we played good for three quarters, four quarters and they have a
couple of big plays happen. That kind of nullifies your efforts. I think
on defense, as a whole, we're coming together, though."
SAFETY LEROY BUTLER
on the loss: "It was a tough one. We had our chance to put them away. We
had a couple chances when we were up 13-10. We could have put them away,
but we didn't. We have a team now. We just have to learn a little killer
instinct."
on the defense: "Defensively, I thought we fought hard. Statistically, it
may not look like it, but we fought hard. Sometimes, it's going to be where
the offense puts up a lot of points, and defensively, we have to stop them,
and vice versa, we just have to come out and play. I was very proud of the
way we were ready to play. We came out fast with Sharper's interception
that got us on the board right away. But the thing we have to do when we
score, the defense has to keep them off the board. I think for the most
part, if you can keep teams to 13, 14 points going into the fourth quarter
you should win a lot of games.
RUNNING BACK AHMAN GREEN
on coming back from his injury: "Just getting warmed up was the biggest
thing, and once I got warmed up, I felt really good out there. Once I got
rolling, it was just clicking after that. It was a tough one out there for
the first game. The Jets played hard. We played hard. Whoever had the
ball last would become the winner."
on how the offense will react: "We'll just look at what we did wrong, look
at our mistakes and correct them and go on to the next game. That's what we
have to do. Look at what was wrong, what we did wrong, what we did to hurt
ourselves in the game and go from there. We had a couple penalties where we
needed a big play. Penalties hurt us, and we have to look at that and make
sure we correct it for the next game."
on whether his knee was hurting after the game: "No. Not at all."
WIDE RECEIVER ANTONIO FREEMAN
on the offense's performance: "The offense struggled the first quarter. I
think we had 51 yards in the first half. The defense did a good job of
keeping those guys (Jets) out of the end zone. Offensively, we just didn't
have any punch today."
on the offense's mistakes: "Yeah, they're definitely fixable. We'll go
back tomorrow and look at the things we did wrong, try to correct those
things and try to continue to work on the things we did well."
KICKER RYAN LONGWELL
on his performance: "It was one of the tougher days that I've seen since
I've been here. The wind was blowing real hard, and it wasn't in pregame,
so it didn't give us any chance to prepare for it. You'd like to have a win
rather than a successful game. So it's kind of bittersweet."
on his accuracy: "I have the best snapper in the league. I've said it many
times. I have a great holder in Hass (Matt Hasselbeck), and we just need to
keep it going."
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