Question: A 24-20 loss to the New England Patriots on Sunday. A difficult, disappointing loss and the first loss for the Colts in nearly 11 months. As you said Sunday, “If you didn't care who won the game, absolutely a great game . . .”

Answer: We care who won and to tell you the truth, it’s even more disappointing the next day when you look at the tape because we gave it away, really. We left 11 points on the field in the first half, then we had the lead in the fourth quarter and couldn’t hold it. Our defense played really great. Remember, this (New England) is a team that averaged 41.8 points per game coming in. We held them to 24 and a lot of those came on short fields courtesy of the special teams. Our offense - and particularly our offensive front – was decidedly outplayed in the second half by theirs. Penalties, missed assignments, missed blocks – things of that nature – it’s disappointing, because you know you can play better than that. That’s our job now. Let’s go to San Diego and play better.

Q: The Colts have played so many difficult games in succession and had played two consecutive games on the road. Was there any element Sunday of the players just getting mentally or physically tired?

A: You shouldn’t. You get tired of getting beaten on by those four big guys up front who come with fury and fire and really get after you. But you have to match shot for shot and we didn’t do it. We just simply didn’t do it. (Colts running back) Joseph Addai had a phenomenal game, but we didn’t catch the ball the way we usually do and we didn’t get people blocked. It’s just that simple. (Colts Head Coach) Tony (Dungy) doesn’t make excuses and neither do I. They outplayed us and they particularly outplayed us their defensive front to our offensive front. When that happens, and you lose the special teams decidedly as we did – a deflected field goal and over a 20-yard difference in drive start because of return yardage – you’re going to lose the football game. It’s a tribute to our defense that we were in it as long as we were.

Q: How does Tony handle practice this week? On Wednesday, do you review what went wrong Sunday or is the Patriots game over?

A: That’s done. You put it behind you. We have to go out and get ready for San Diego. We have to practice our techniques. We have to make sure we do everything right, that the little things that you do are what counts. When you do those things, you win. When you don’t, you get in trouble. That’s what has occurred. We need to make sure most importantly – most importantly – that we listen to one voice. Last week, there were so many voices, the vast majority of which had no idea what the game was about. There will be more this week. It doesn’t matter. Focus. And maybe we listened to a little too many voices. That’s a prescription for failure. That’s what we need to do. Focus, focus, focus. Listen to one voice.

Q: And any problems about which you’re speaking – they’re correctable?

A: Absolutely, they’re correctable. Technique is correctable any day of the week. You go out there and work on it. This is an offensive line that has been among the best offensive lines in professional football for the past seven years. It is easily correctable. The same is true of catching the ball. We catch the ball. We can go a month of Sundays without dropping a ball. So, that’s focus. That’s concentration. We have to get that done. So, those things can improve and will improve with practice. That’s what we need to do.

Q: What was your opinion of the new official doing the game Sunday? And did you hear any whistles during the game?

A: Relative to the official, John Parry – he’s not a new official. As a matter of fact, he worked the Super Bowl last year as a downfield official. I thought he did a great job Sunday. There were a couple of people on his crew that we didn’t rate quite as highly, but I thought he did a great job. I didn’t see any hesitation whatsoever on any of the calls he made. By the way, the holding call on (Colts offensive guard) Ryan Lilja was a good call. It is one we have been urging the officials and the league office to make, so when you’re guilty, you’re guilty. That’s it. Relative to whistles, I didn’t hear any. We have not heard any complaints along those lines. Nothing of that nature, that I know of.

Q: What was the thought process behind putting cornerback Tim Jennings on Patriots wide receiver Randy Moss rather than putting cornerbacks Kelvin Hayden or Marlin Jackson on him?

A: He didn’t struggle with speed and the long play down the field wasn’t his responsibility. The safety needs to get over the top of that. They had a complementary route that held the safety and he didn’t quite get there. In the end zone, I’m sure the coaches gave thought to it, but to play inside in the nickel situation in that position requires a lot of practice and a lot of different skills because you’ve got run-support responsibilities as well as pass. To make that move just to get the match-up, I’m sure they thought that it wasn’t worth the trouble. Now, when it doesn’t work out, people always criticize it. He did a good job on the second one and in fact, got a penalty called on Moss. He does have good leaping ability. It’s just the fact that Moss is so long that he can make some of those plays. You’re going to get beat occasionally, but as I said, I thought our defense really played very, very well.

Q: Are you sure Moss is only 6-feet-5?

A: (Laughter) He has awfully long arms. He’s what the basketball people call long. He has awfully long arms. He’s probably closer to 6-feet-8 or 6-9 when he jumps, and he has good leaping ability.

Q: Was there an incident on Sunday involving a Colts assistant coach confronting a cameraman over videotaping Sunday? It appeared there was some sort of incident at some point on the sidelines regarding credentials with a cameraman . . .

A: There was no suspicion. I’m sure the people you’re identifying as assistant coaches are probably security people. We have our own security people who dress in Colts gear by league rule. That’s probably who you’re referring to. My guess is they were just checking credentials.

Q: If the Patriots and Colts were to play again, what would you tell the team? What would you do differently?

A: I think that what you need to do when you play any team, not just the Patriots, but particularly a good one – and the Patriots certainly are – is you have to be on the details. You also have to understand the broad themes – the very broad themes that are the keys to winning. There are keys to winning every game. They vary depending upon the team you are playing. In this particular game, one of the things we stressed was, 'No big plays down the field.’ Well, we gave them two – largely because we had a little confusion as to what route to take. That needs to get straightened out. We will do that. One of the things we said was,