Trent Green's Post Game Press Conference

Ecto-I · 09-10-2001, 01:59 PM

QB Trent Green - On Raiders' defense: "Charles Woodson is one of the best cornerbacks in the league, you got to give him his credit. Eric Allen has played in the league for a long time, he's established and a reliable corner. Our game plan coming in was taking advantage of the Michael Ricks & Tony Gonzalez match up. They did a good job on that today, they doubled Tony (Gonzalez) a lot. We weren't able to utilize some of that stuff early on. That was the frustrating part that our defense was playing so well early. When you look at time of possession,the amount of time we left the defense on the field, that falls on the offense's shoulders when it's the fourth quarter and your defense is on the field that much. We can't afford to leave them out there out long."
On the fumbled snap: "It's a thing where you could point fingers and blame a number of different things. We can't have fumbled snaps. It's something we've talked about since camp and it's obviously drawn some attention during camp. It's not fair to point fingers at any one person. "I haven't had a fumbled snap all preseason. With Brian (Waters) coming in last week when Casey (Wiegmann) had his surgery, we went through the whole St. Louis game and didn't have any problems. We went through a whole week of practice and didn't have any problems. Those were huge plays; because one, we had some momentum going and the second one was very costly. We had an opportunity to get a field goal at the end of the half, and then they turn around get a field goal after that."

On the officiating: "They had some really good calls, and they had some not so good calls. I think if you look at both sides of the ball, we had a lot of mistakes on our side and came up with
some big plays as well as the Raiders had four turnovers and made some plays when it counted. To say they did any differently than both teams played, they made some mistakes just like we did. They need some room for error just like we do."

QB Trent Green - On Raiders' defense: "Charles Woodson is one of the best cornerbacks in the league, you got to give him his credit. Eric Allen has played in the league for a long time,he's established and a reliable corner. Our game plan coming in was taking advantage of the Michael Ricks & Tony Gonzalez match up. They did a good job on that today, they doubled Tony (Gonzalez) a lot. We weren't able to utilize some of that stuff early on. That was the frustrating part that our defense was playing so well early. When you look at time of possession, the amount of time we left the defense on the field, that falls on the offense's shoulders when it's the fourth quarter and your defense is on the field that much. We can't afford to leave them out there out long."

On the fumbled snap: "It's a thing where you could point fingers and blame a number of different things. We can't have fumbled snaps. It's something we've talked about since camp and it's obviously drawn some attention during camp. It's not fair to point fingers at any one person.
"I haven't had a fumbled snap all preseason. With Brian (Waters) coming in last week when Casey (Wiegmann) had his surgery, we went through the whole St. Louis game and didn't have any problems. We went through a whole week of practice and didn't have any problems. Those were huge plays; because one, we had some momentum going and the second one was very costly. We had an opportunity to get a field goal at the end of the half, and then they turn around get a field goal after that."

On the officiating: "They had some really good calls, and they had some not so good calls. I think if you look at both sides of the ball, we had a lot of mistakes on our side and came up with
some big plays as well as the Raiders had four turnovers and made some plays when it counted. To say they did any differently than both teams played, they made some mistakes just like we did. They need some room for error just like we do."

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Man, no finger pointing like our old guy. Kinda hard to get used to;)

09-10-2001, 01:59 PM	Topic Starter
Ecto-I The only way to Travel. Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: In the car Casino cash: $2823602	Trent Green's Post Game Press Conference QB Trent Green - On Raiders' defense: "Charles Woodson is one of the best cornerbacks in the league, you got to give him his credit. Eric Allen has played in the league for a long time, he's established and a reliable corner. Our game plan coming in was taking advantage of the Michael Ricks & Tony Gonzalez match up. They did a good job on that today, they doubled Tony (Gonzalez) a lot. We weren't able to utilize some of that stuff early on. That was the frustrating part that our defense was playing so well early. When you look at time of possession,the amount of time we left the defense on the field, that falls on the offense's shoulders when it's the fourth quarter and your defense is on the field that much. We can't afford to leave them out there out long." On the fumbled snap: "It's a thing where you could point fingers and blame a number of different things. We can't have fumbled snaps. It's something we've talked about since camp and it's obviously drawn some attention during camp. It's not fair to point fingers at any one person. "I haven't had a fumbled snap all preseason. With Brian (Waters) coming in last week when Casey (Wiegmann) had his surgery, we went through the whole St. Louis game and didn't have any problems. We went through a whole week of practice and didn't have any problems. Those were huge plays; because one, we had some momentum going and the second one was very costly. We had an opportunity to get a field goal at the end of the half, and then they turn around get a field goal after that." On the officiating: "They had some really good calls, and they had some not so good calls. I think if you look at both sides of the ball, we had a lot of mistakes on our side and came up with some big plays as well as the Raiders had four turnovers and made some plays when it counted. To say they did any differently than both teams played, they made some mistakes just like we did. They need some room for error just like we do." QB Trent Green - On Raiders' defense: "Charles Woodson is one of the best cornerbacks in the league, you got to give him his credit. Eric Allen has played in the league for a long time,he's established and a reliable corner. Our game plan coming in was taking advantage of the Michael Ricks & Tony Gonzalez match up. They did a good job on that today, they doubled Tony (Gonzalez) a lot. We weren't able to utilize some of that stuff early on. That was the frustrating part that our defense was playing so well early. When you look at time of possession, the amount of time we left the defense on the field, that falls on the offense's shoulders when it's the fourth quarter and your defense is on the field that much. We can't afford to leave them out there out long." On the fumbled snap: "It's a thing where you could point fingers and blame a number of different things. We can't have fumbled snaps. It's something we've talked about since camp and it's obviously drawn some attention during camp. It's not fair to point fingers at any one person. "I haven't had a fumbled snap all preseason. With Brian (Waters) coming in last week when Casey (Wiegmann) had his surgery, we went through the whole St. Louis game and didn't have any problems. We went through a whole week of practice and didn't have any problems. Those were huge plays; because one, we had some momentum going and the second one was very costly. We had an opportunity to get a field goal at the end of the half, and then they turn around get a field goal after that." On the officiating: "They had some really good calls, and they had some not so good calls. I think if you look at both sides of the ball, we had a lot of mistakes on our side and came up with some big plays as well as the Raiders had four turnovers and made some plays when it counted. To say they did any differently than both teams played, they made some mistakes just like we did. They need some room for error just like we do." --------------------------------------------- Man, no finger pointing like our old guy. Kinda hard to get used to;)
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