NOT EVEN GOIN TO WASTE OUR TIME!
DETROIT LIONS VS. WASHINGTON REDSKINS:
POSTGAME QUOTESLIONS HEAD COACH ROD MARINELLI Opening Statement:
"Just an update on the injuries. (Jerome) Felton had an ankle; (I) don't know how bad that is. (Damion) Cook, knee; Casey (FitzSimmons) had a shoulder and then we made a move yesterday with Gilbert Gardner. (He) got hurt in practice and we brought up Anthony Cannon. On what went wrong during the game against Washington: "Well, we had a couple false starts, you know. And you can't do that and we had two holds and you can't do that. (You) can't hold; it's simple football. When you do that it-we're not good enough right now-1st-and-15, those things hurt us. We had some plays that we got; they got brought back so, that hurt us."On how to change the mental mistakes of the players: "I just keep doing what I do. I mean, you just go-we've cut back some things. You just keep going over it and that's what you have to do there. They're playing hard. (I'm) coaching the dog out of them, each and every day we're out there and they respond all week; great attitudes. We're just not getting it done on Sunday."On how to turn it around: "We made some progress in some areas this week. You know, we went in (and) slammed the run early. We had a good pass-rush, you know. We left some stuff out there. Our blitzes were-we had some nice blitzes, they were open. Now, we've just got to execute, (and) get the guy on the ground. We had two of them, we had two guys free. So some of those things were there, then you've got to cut the penalties back. The time of possession's still hurting us. Defense is on the field too long. Offense has got to get more. So you just-there's some things that you see that we're improving at but not good enough, and it's not good enough yet to get a win."On if it's now time to win and not talk about progress: "You know, I see on the field certain things we've done in terms of our run-defense have been good. So we've been playing that a little bit better, and the pass-rush is getting better. I think our blitzes are coming; we've just got to execute the blitz at the end. But those are the things I can see, and they're working, but the wins aren't there and I understand that."On why Marinelli still believes wins are coming: "Because that's who I am. You are you. You're negative."Ok, so I'm going to answer you: because I believe in what we're doing and I'm just going to keep doing it."
LIONS QB DAN ORLOVSKY On why the team can't get over the hump of making small mistakes:
"That's tough, you know. Lack of execution and failure is going to happen, we're people. But we're making too many of them, and it's tough to swallow. It's tough to go, you know, three weeks in a row against potential playoff teams and fight to the end and lose our possession. That's tough. "I love the guys on this team. I love the people, the coaches. You know, the guys who fight, it's awesome. But it's not enough. It's hard to swallow as a competitor." On what happened during the last drive of the game: "We were in a two minute situation. We knew we had no time-outs, so they were in a max drop eight, so you want to be aggressive but you want to give yourself a chance also. So we were able to get a first-down or two and then just didn't make enough plays at the end. "(I'll) go back and check the film to see if I missed a throw or missed a read. They did more than us to win today, and especially on that drive."On the frustration of losing 14 of the last 15 games: "Yeah, I mean its 14-of-15, that's easy to see. Fourteen-of-15 is bad. You win 14-of-15, you're great; you lose 14-of-15, it's not good. But it is what it is."On does the game not being a sellout effect the game performance: "We weren't too consumed with it. We wanted to go out and play ball."
LIONS WR CALVIN JOHNSON On if this is frustrating:
"Yeah, it's frustrating. It starts with myself and everybody else has to know there are certain times we had to execute when we didn't. We had penalties and stuff. We've got to try to eliminate those things."On him being in the backfield next to the quarterback to get a mismatch with the linebacker: "Yeah, that second time we ran it, it allowed me to get outside the linebacker to catch the ball and make my way into the endzone."On if he's noticed a difference in the way defenses treat him with Williams gone: "The first game we played Houston last week, they still played their main coverages. This team, they didn't change too much, but the safety's always deep. But a lot of times - in the beginning of the game - he played over the top of me trying to high-low me."On where this team is: "It's real frustrating because we got ourselves in a good situation today and just failed to execute in the second half. I had a penalty there and we just had some mishaps in the second half and weren't able to get the ball down the field."
LIONS DE CLIFF AVRILOn having chances and not being able to capitalize on them:
"We've just got to be detailed. Sometimes we can just be off. I mean in the NFL you have to be on point with everything and we just had little minor things that we need to work on to get better."On whether his own personal plays become overshadowed once they got the loss: "I'm just trying to help as much as possible. I could have made more plays to help the team out. It's a team thing for me; I'm not really necessarily worried about my stats or anything like that."On whether or not the Redskins did anything to surprise them: "Portis and Campbell, they're great players. You can't take anything away from them. You just have to make plays."On whether or not it's simply back to the drawing board with Chicago coming up next: "Definitely back to the drawing board; we're going to come back and work hard on Wednesday and go back at it"
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