The effort was there. I was physical. I didn't bust any big plays. It was the little things I kind of messed up on.

A lot of media are going to point the finger at him, but this was not Jake's fault.

He puts up Ws for us when he plays smart.

If we want to win games, we have to improve on third downs and in the red zone. It's as simple as that. I don't think we did that great (Sunday). We did better than last week, but it wasn't enough.

If I would have come in and watched this film and not seen myself, even after the drops, just going hard and competing, I probably would lose a little confidence, ... But I was still trying to make plays, and that kind of boosts my confidence up.

I'm not sure how much that affected us, being down. I think it might have put a little bit of fire in us coming out in the third quarter. People started realizing the season could be over if we didn't get something done.

It's not an insult. Because any NFL quarterback has to go out and manage the game and not lose it. It's just that Jake made a couple of mistakes here and there in his career and the NFL kind of got on him for that. They still want to get on him for that now.

It's not like it was that Kansas City game last year, which was more effort and me not knowing my stuff, ... It was just, I was in position to make plays and I didn't make them.

It might have been an ugly game, but it was against a Super Bowl team. We knew it would be ugly; we just had to make more plays than they did.

It's a complex offense, because of all the checks and the reads. I was struggling, too, but Jake's a quarterback, and in this town. I think 's harder on him.