Mark Brunell Ball Quotations

Most teams will not give you the plays downfield, ... particularly when you've got a guy like Santana, who has made big plays. You've got to be patient, and you've got to take what's available to you with the underneath stuff. So it's about being patient, but sometimes that's really hard to do, because you want to get that ball downfield.

He got the ball and made something happen. That's what the great ones do.

That's at the forefront of our minds -- getting the ball downfield.

We're cutting down on our mistakes. We're being smarter with the football. We're running the ball much better. Our defense has been good all year, but offensively, the biggest difference is that we're running the ball. That makes everything a lot easier.

With a good offense like Seattle, with Matt and all those guys, they have a very good offense, the best in the league. If they're on the field long enough they're going to score some points. We just needed to keep the ball in our hands and convert those third downs and get some points, and we just didn't do that.

Turnovers killed us. You're just not going to win if you turn the ball over.

We need to run the ball and set things up for the passing game. They shut us down.

The safety was bearing down on him. So I tried to get the ball up so he could make a play, and he did.

You guys were telling me all week what a great runner I was, ... but you've got to tuck the ball away. If you don't, it will come out.

The offense that makes the most mistakes, that's the team that's going to lose. They had three turnovers, we only had one and it didn't hurt us. In a playoff situation like that, you realize that that is the most important (factor) - being smart with the ball and not giving it to them, because if you do, they're going to take advantage of it.

We were one-dimensional last year. We ran the ball very well, I thought, but our passing game was lacking. When you can have that balance, you're more efficient.

We just needed to keep the ball in our hands and convert those third downs and get some points. But we just didn't do it.