Post-game notes and quotes from the Detroit Lions’ 34-30 loss to the Kansas City Chiefs at Ford Field

WEEK 4: SUNDAY, SEPT. 29, 2019
The following are post-game notes and quotes from the Detroit Lions’ 34-30 loss to the Kansas City Chiefs at Ford Field on Sunday, Sept. 29, 2019.
POST-GAME NOTES
LIONS SCORING PLAYS

First Quarter: K Matt Prater kicked a 25-yard field goal to give Detroit a 3-0 lead with 9:22 left in the quarter.
First Quarter: QB Matthew Stafford threw a five-yard touchdown pass to TE T.J. Hockenson to give Detroit a 10-0
lead with 3:05 left in the quarter. K Matt Prater converted the extra point.
Second Quarter: K Matt Prater connected on a 48-yard field goal to give Detroit a 13-10 lead with 1:03 left in the
half.
Third Quarter: K Matt Prater hit a 53-yard field goal with 6:19 left in the quarter to cut the Chiefs’ lead to 20-16.
Third Quarter: QB Matthew Stafford threw a nine-yard touchdown to WR Kenny Golladay with 1:10 left in the
quarter to give Detroit a 23-20 lead. K Matt Prater converted the extra point.
Fourth Quarter: QB Matthew Stafford threw a six-yard touchdown pass to WR Kenny Golladay with 2:26 left in the
game to give Detroit a 30-27 lead. K Matt Prater made the point-after attempt.
TEAM NOTES
The Lions…
Scored on their first two offensive possessions of the game for the first time since doing so on Sept. 23, 2018 vs. New England.
Rushed for 186 yards, their most in a home game since totaling 241 rushing yards vs. Green Bay on Nov. 28, 2013. Since that game, the Lions last rushed for at least 185 yards at Miami on Oct. 21, 2018.
Recovered three fumbles in a game for the first time since doing so vs. Green Bay on Oct. 7, 2018.
Recorded multiple fumble recoveries in consecutive games for the first time since doing so in Weeks 8-10 of the
2011 season (the Lions had a bye in Week 9).
Notched three takeaways, the most the Chiefs have committed since totaling five at the Los Angeles Rams on Nov.
19, 2018.
Had seven rushes of 10-or-more yards, their most in a home game since totaling eight rushes of at least 10 yards
vs. Green Bay on Nov. 28, 2013. The last time the Lions had at least seven rushes of 10-plus yards in a game was
at Miami on Oct. 21, 2018, when they had exactly seven.
Had four completions of 25-or-more yards, tying the most they’ve had in a home game since having six vs.
Pittsburgh on Oct. 29, 2017.
Had six players total at least 25 receiving yards for the first time since six players did so vs. Green Bay in Week 17
of the 2016 season.
Totaled at least 250 net passing yards and 175 net rushing yards in the same game for only the third time since

The Lions most recently did so vs. Green Bay on Nov. 28, 2013.

Topped 30 points in a home game for the first time since totaling 31 points vs. Green Bay on Oct. 7, 2018.
Through four games, the Lions have topped 445 net yards in two different games. The last time they topped at least
445 net yards at least twice in a single season is when they did so four times over the course of the 2013 season.
Averaged 6.1 yards per play, their most in a home game since averaging 6.6 yards per play vs. Green Bay in Week
17 of the 2017 season.
Through four games played, the Lions have two interceptions and five fumble recoveries for seven total takeaways.
Held Chiefs QB Patrick Mahomes without a touchdown pass or a touchdown rush. This marks only the third time
Mahomes has gone without a touchdown pass in his career and first since doing so vs. Jacksonville on Oct. 7, 2018. The Lions also held Mahomes scoreless for only the second time in his career and for the first time since his first-career start in Week 17 of the 2017 season.

INDIVIDUAL NOTES
CB JUSTIN COLEMAN

Finished with four solo tackles, two pass defenses, one forced fumble and one fumble recovery.
Produced multiple pass defenses in consecutive games for the first time in his career.
LB JARRAD DAVIS
Finished with three solo tackles and one tackle for loss.
Passed DB William White (203) for the 10th-most total tackles a Lions player has had through his first three seasons.
WR KENNY GOLLADAY
Recorded five receptions for 67 yards (13.4 avg.) and two touchdowns.
Passed TE Charlie Sanders (1,733) for the ninth-most receiving yards a Lions player has had through his first three
seasons.
Has four receiving touchdowns through Week 4, tied for the third-most receiving touchdowns a Lions player has had
through the first four games of a season and most since WR Calvin Johnson had four through Week 4 of the 2013
season.
Produced his second-career multi-touchdown game and first since doing so in Week 1 of the 2017 season.
Now has 1,783 receiving yards through 30 career games, the fifth-most a Lions player has produced in his first 30
NFL games.
Has 12 receiving touchdowns through his first 30 career games, tied for the seventh-most receiving touchdowns
through 30 games played in franchise history.
TE T.J. HOCKENSON
Caught three passes for 27 yards (9.0 avg.) and one touchdown on the day.
Joined TE Charlie Sanders as the only tight ends in Lions history to record a catch in each of their first four career
games.
Joined TE Joseph Fauria as the only Lions tight ends to catch two touchdowns within his first four career games.
RB KERRYON JOHNSON
Finished with a career-high 26 carries for 125 yards (4.8 avg.) and added two receptions for 32 yards to produce 157 yards from scrimmage on the day. His 157 yards from scrimmage are the second-most he’s totaled in his career.
Topped 100 rushing yards for the first time this season and third time in his career.
Became the first Lions player to finish a game with at least 120 rushing yards and 30 receiving yards since RB
Reggie Bush did so vs. Chicago on Sept. 29, 2013.
Passed RB Mikel Leshoure (798) for the fifth-most rushing yards a Lions running back has had in his first 14 career
games.
Rushed for 65 yards in the first half, the most rushing yards a Lions player has had in the first half of a home game
since RB Reggie Bush had 84 in the first half vs. Green Bay on Nov. 28, 2013.
Tallied his eighth-career game with at least 85 yards from scrimmage, the third-most games with at least 85
scrimmage yards a Lions player has produced through 14 career games.
WR MARVIN JONES JR.
Caught three passes for 77 yards (25.7 avg.) on the day.
Has now caught a pass in 72 straight games.
Logged at least 40 receiving yards for his seventh-straight game played.
K MATT PRATER
Finished three-of-three on field goals and three-of-three on extra points to produce 12 points scored on the day.
Passed K Shayne Graham (1,260) for the 36th-most points scored in NFL history.
Recorded his 48th game since 2008 with at least 10 points scored, tied for the third-most such games in that span.
Connected on a 53-yard field goal, his 48th-career field goal of 50-or-more yards. He is now 48-of-63 on field goals of
at least 50 yards in his career, with his 76.2 conversion percentage trailing only K Robbie Gould’s 76.3 conversion percentage on field goals of at least 50 yards for the highest percentage in NFL history.
LB JALEN REEVES-MAYBIN
Posted a career-high four special teams tackles and forced and recovered fumbles on special teams.
QB MATTHEW STAFFORD
Finished 21-of-34 (61.8 percent) for 291 yards, three touchdowns and no interceptions for a 118.6 passer rating.
Passed QB John Hadl (244) for the 24th-most touchdown passes in NFL history.
Had five completions of 20-or-more yards.
Compiled his 77th-career multi-touchdown game, tying QB Tony Romo for the ninth-most multi-touchdown games a quarterback has completed in his first 11 seasons.
Completed his 34th career game with at least three touchdown passes and 16th career game with at least three touchdown passes and zero interceptions.
Passed QB Eli Manning (20,144) for the fifth-most passing yards a quarterback has had in home games through his first 11 NFL seasons.
DB TRACY WALKER
Set a career-highs in solo tackles (11) and total tackles (12).
Now has 36 total tackles through Week 4, the most a Lions defensive back has ever posted and tied with LB Ernie
Sims in 2007 for the second-most total tackles a Lions player has produced through the first four games of a season.
Has 32 solo tackles through Week 4, the most solo tackles a Lions player has ever produced through Week 4 of a
season.
Became one-of-six defensive backs in team history to record at least five tackles in each of the first four games of a
season.
S TAVON WILSON
Set a career high with 10 solo tackles. His 10 tackles on the day mark the second-most he’s produced in a single game in his career.
Tallied his 13th tackle for loss with the Lions, passing DB Quandre Diggs for the second-most career tackles for loss by Lions defensive back.
POST-GAME QUOTES
POOL REPORTER PAULA PASCHE INTERVIEW WITH NFL SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT OF OFFICIATING AL RIVERON
On RB Kerryon Johnson’s fumble on Kansas City’s 1-yard line with 9:31 remaining in the third quarter, which was returned by CB Bashaud Breeland for a 100-yard touchdown:
Pasche: Why wasn’t the ball whistled dead?
Riveron: “The officials ruled on the field that they did not see the ball carrier down. They did not see a body part other than the hand or foot down. The ball comes loose and then the ball was picked up by Kansas City, No. 21. He was not touched after he possessed the football. There was no whistle on the play, and he runs it back for a touchdown.”
Pasche: A few weeks ago, the Rams and Saints had a similar situation.
Riveron: “No, it wasn’t a similar situation. That was a matter of pass/fumble and the officials on the field ruled that it was an incomplete pass. When we looked at it, we changed it to a fumble. By rule, we can give it back to the team that possesses the ball, but we cannot give them the advance because the whistle blew. So, two different situations altogether.”
Pasche: So, here the whistle didn’t blow because they didn’t see the runner down? Riveron: “Because he was not down, yes.”
LIONS DE TREY FLOWERS QUOTE SHEET
On the difficulty of bringing down Chiefs QB Patrick Mahomes: “He’s definitely a crafty guy. Obviously, aware in the pocket. He’s a guy that’s able to move around. You saw today, he made a few plays with his legs.”
On if the team was designating a player to try and contain Mahomes: “I really can’t tell you the strategy, but it was an all-around effort. Obviously, guys up front understanding how he’s able to make some plays with his legs. We just had to keep him in the pocket, however we did it, we missed a few opportunities.”
On the defense being able to challenge the Chiefs’ offense despite some injuries: “A lot of guys working. Obviously, we’ve got guys in the backend that went down, but guys stepped up. That’s kind of the next-man-up mentality. Everybody comes to practice ready to work, ready to prepare for each week, when your name is called, you’ve got to step up.”

LIONS HEAD COACH MATT PATRICIA
Opening statement: “OK, all right – obviously extremely disappointed that we didn’t win the game. We expect to win all of the games that we play. I’ll say that. I’ll say this: I am really proud of this group. I think this is an extremely tough, mentally tough team. I think they fight, I think they’ll play, I think they go out and compete, and I am proud of them for that. But we’re obviously disappointed that we didn’t win the game. I think there were a lot of plays out there that we all wish we could have back, and I’ve got to coach better. I’ve got to get the team ready to go and have got to get some of the details cleaned up and, you know, we’ll do that here as we push toward the bye week. But I thought those guys, just, they hung in there regardless of what the circumstance was, what the situation of the game was. The team doesn’t blink. They just keep going forward. So we have got to build on that, hopefully we can continue that, and then clean up some of the execution and then go from there. We obviously have got, you know, the bye week here, so we can go back and take a look at some of the things that we’ve got to improve on, but, you know, we’ve got a long stretch in front of us. It’s a long season and we’ve just got to continue to try to get better. But, you know, give that team, give those players a lot of credit for going out and fighting extremely hard and we’ve got to coach it better so that we can give ourselves a chance to win.”
On not capitalizing on three different trips to the red zone: “You know, there’s a lot of plays in there that obviously, that we wish we could have back. But any one of those are critical that we think maybe could have turned it the other way. I think the biggest thing for us, in those particular situations are, we know that – you know, when you are playing great teams, we need to capitalize on the points opportunities. You know, we have to do that, we have to make sure that we get something when we’re down in there, and again we’re all disappointed in that. We have to coach that better and make sure that we are good to go on those situations, but again I thought the positive out of that was nobody blinked, and everyone just kept back fighting and trying to do everything they could to get the game back under control. But, you know, we certainly have got to do better in those situations.”
On Chiefs QB Patrick Mahomes’ fourth-down scramble during Kansas City’s game-winning drive: “Yeah. He’s a great player, he saw it, and he just took it right away. We had a particular call, and they came in with a bigger personnel group, and they did a good job with the protection on it, and really kind of doubled down on some of our guys, and shipped them out of there, and opened up a big hole, and I think it was probably a quick reform, whether or not it was there, take off, if not, throw it and it was there for him and he took advantage of it. So, again, that’s on me. I’ve got to coach that better.”
On his perspective surrounding the goal-line fumble and Kansas City touchdown: “Yeah, the biggest thing with that, was No. 1: They were trying to see if he was down. You know, and obviously the shots and the angles that they had. And then No. 2: once they determined that it was a fumble, was there a down by contact? And what they saw was that the ball was never really cleanly recovered until it had kind of skated through everybody and then picked up and then ran. Biggest thing for us there is that we have got to finish every play. It doesn’t matter when the ball is out. We have got to finished, and we’ve got to stay focused, and we also need to take care of the ball. That’s a big part of it, so I’ve got to coach that better and I’ve got to make sure that everybody understands in those situations what we’ve got to do.”
On the difficulties that the Lions faced throughout the game regarding confusion over the whistle being
blown: “Yeah, you know there definitely – there were a couple plays out there I thought actually, with the whistle situation, that was a little bit difficult. It was really loud which was great in there, but we had another play that we got a penalty on that was when we were on defense in our low red area. You know, didn’t hear the whistle, they said the whistle was blown, and then obviously we finished the tackle in a way that caused the penalty, so we’ve got to play within those, you know within those rules. We’ve got to do a better job, but at the very least in those situations, the other one with Kerryon (Johnson) one, we’ve just got to at least wrap them up and make them blow the whistle and make it dead at that point without doing anything egregious. And just finish, you know, and not assume.
On that same play if he thought RB Kerryon Johnson had ended up with the ball: “No, we just can’t. We can’t lose the ball.”
On QB Matthew Stafford playing despite his hip injury today: “Yeah, he’s one of the toughest guys we got. I mean there’s no if, ands or buts about it. I mean, he’s competing extremely hard, we’ve got a lot of guys out there that are banged up or got banged up during the game that went out and finished and played hard, and he was leading the charge. So, I’ll tell you all the time – I’m just appreciative so much that he’s our quarterback and that he goes out and he fights, and he works, and he grinds and tries to get better. And you know, they keep fighting when they follow him, and we just keep going forward. So we all know we’ve got to eliminate the mistakes, and like I said, you know, we’ve got to coach a lot better. But, always proud of him and what he does every single week to try to lead this team.”
On TE T.J. Hockenson’s status and if he went to the hospital: “No. He did not. That was not a good situation to walk out into, and we’ll just go through everything as far as that’s concerned, but I did get him to smile when he finally sat up so that was a good ending and made me feel a little better. But just those you know – you don’t like to see those at all.”

On if he discourages leaping over players like TE T.J. Hockenson did against Kansas City: “I would say that that would be a very fair assessment here: That we have to be real careful when you do leap and you do go up in the air. There is an added risk that is involved in the play, and a lot of times I think those guys, sometimes they take real calculated risks on those situations, sometimes it’s something that we’ve seen on tape maybe previously or an opportunity maybe a guy goes low. In that particular situation, we’re just trying to keep the players as safe as possible. I want to keep them safe.”
On TE T.J. Hockenson’s spirits after being carted off the field: “He was in great spirits. His mom and dad are here. It was good. We’ll just see how it goes.”
On an update on DB Quandre Diggs: “No update right now. We’ll see what it looks like tomorrow.”
On the effort of the secondary without certain starters: “Going back to the statement I said before, I’m proud of the way that these guys fight, especially those guys in the backend. No one blinks, no one misses a beat. Everyone goes in – next man up. That’s really critically important for us as we push forward through the season. There’s always going to be situations where guys can’t play or they’re injured or they’re out or something happens – equipment issue, whatever it is, and whoever is next has to go in. They have to prepare, they have to be ready to go, and they have to step in and perform at a high level. Certainly we’d all like to perform a little bit better than what we did tonight – coach and play better and come out with a win. That will be the biggest part of it, but again, as far as the preparation and the guy stepping in in those situations, I was pleased with that as far as that’s concerned.”
On if the team is going in the direction he wants even after losing to Kansas City: “We’ll find out here as we go through the season. It’s a long season for us – just finished four games. There’s certainly some things in here to be really proud of, and as we take a look at it, as we get into the bye week, we’ll find out things that we need to fix, and that will be a key part of it. We have to fix those things as we go forward. Appreciate those guys – and look, that’s a good team over there. (Chiefs Head Coach) Andy (Reid) does an unbelievable job of coaching them and getting them ready to go. We’re going to go compete with anybody that is put in front of us, but we expect to win no matter who we play. We’re going out to play and compete and win, so as far as we’re concerned that’s what we’re trying to do.”
On if he learned anything new about the team: “I think you learn something about your team every week. I really do. I think that there’s something different that happens in every single game that you can learn from, good or bad. I think this is a really mentally tough team. I think we’ve proven that through the first four games. I think we’ve proven that we will go out and fight, but we need to continue that. Whatever we’ve done in the past doesn’t matter. It’s only what we do going forward, and certainly for us there’s a lot of improvement that we need to do going forward.”
On the key to sparking the running game: “I think for us, the run game again, we were close last week. I think we were a couple maybe blocks or a couple little details away, and I thought some of that looked or at least it appeared – we’ll see what the tape looks like – appeared that maybe some of that was cleaned up a little bit better, but there were definitely some plays in there that we had some runners and some of defenses that they ran where they had some guys clean off the edge and trailing from the backside, and just some recognition things that we need to clean up. We have to do a better job to make sure they’re handled. I think the group in general, they want to do that stuff, they want to get better, they were trying to improve, and that’s all you can ask for as a coach. We just have to coach it better and keep working with them.”
On if there was a better way to coach the fourth-and-eight defensive situation at the end of the game: “We can second guess all of them. I know if he’s going to scramble, I certainly have calls that are good for if he is going to scramble. If he goes back there and throws it vertical with some of the speed he has then I’m not going to be happy in some of those situations. We can only put so many guys in so many different areas. They have a very talented offense, they have a lot of weapons that you’re trying to defend against. I’ll take a look at it, and like I said, I have to coach the situation better, and just make sure everybody is aware that if we do this, these are the weaknesses; if we do this, these are the weakness, this is where they can hurt us and make sure we play aware so that it doesn’t happen again.”
On if knocking the ball out is contagious among the defensive players: “It’s definitely something that as a player, I think those guys keep talking for each other. They’re doing a great job of talking and working through some of the details of that stuff. I think as the season goes, obviously, then teams do a much better job of taking care of the ball. September, we always know, is a little bit – there’s some bad football out there in general, but usually as the season goes a lot of that stuff tightens up.”
LIONS WR KENNY GOLLADAY QUOTE SHEET
On what the offense’s performance today says: “Really, just that we are a good team and we are starting to get everything rolling a little bit. It’s still early though, we still got some stuff to figure out and fix, but I think everyone should know, the Lions, they are a good team.”

On dealing with the loss today: “It was just a hard fought game, really. They just finished, they finished better than us you know, but that was a battle throughout the entire game.”
On his two touchdowns: “Just making plays really, that’s all. The first one got called out, I just got to control it all the way, there was a little bobble going on, but I’m just fortunate enough that I can make those plays, definitely in a game like this. You know, we got to get better still, though.”
On being a part of a game with so many momentum swings: “Yeah, that’s just football. I think when you play the game of football you battle through adversity. There was a lot of it today, on both sides of the ball, for both teams really. Like I said they just finished better than we did today.”
LIONS WR MARVIN HALL QUOTE SHEET
On his play against Kansas City: “Really, my play really doesn’t matter. It would have of course, but we didn’t come out with the win. It’s always heartbreaking, but we have to get back to work.”
On if he has ever seen a quarter with as many fumbles as the third quarter against Kansas City: “Oh no most definitely (not). It was wild like you said, but we have to continue to just build off of that and continue to fight.”
On what happened when Kansas City returned a fumble for a touchdown: “I’m not 100 percent sure, honestly. I was actually on the bench getting my coaching from my coaches. I really don’t know what happened. All we saw was that they ran down the field.”
On if the game against Kansas City was a moral victory: “Hats off to them. They’re a great team, but like I said we just have to come back in and get back to work. Keep fighting, don’t walk around with our head down. We’re a great team.”
LIONS RB KERRYON JOHNSON QUOTE SHEET
On his perspective of the fumble call on the goal line “My perspective is, they called it a fumble. We lost three or seven points, which turned into seven points for them, we lost by three points, so obviously it hurt. Big play in the game, we had a lot of momentum going for us, kind of killed it. I take full responsibility for it.”
On whether he thought the play was dead or not: “The play is dead, I shouldn’t be reaching the ball out anyway, so.
On if the rest of the team thought the play was dead: “I mean the feeling was, the ref called what he called, and then they had confirmed it. At that point you got to get ready for the next one. You know, we tried to respond, but that play, it hurt a lot. It changed the game.”
On if he was happy with the team’s response after the fumble: “I mean, yeah for sure, because we could have just packed it in, but we didn’t. We fought but it always comes back to something, you know. Like I said, you lose points and give up points in one play, its catastrophic.”
LIONS LB DEVON KENNARD QUOTE SHEET
On what positives can be taken from today: “You know, I’m confident in the guys we have in this locker room. I feel like we can play with anybody, but like you said, there are no moral victories. I feel like that was a game we should have won; we could’ve won. And we have to step up defensively when we need to (and) wasn’t able to do that today. You know, that team is too good to not be able to do that”
On what happened on the late fourth-down scramble by Chiefs QB Patrick Mahomes: “I’m not sure, I have to go back and look at the film, but he took off up the middle. We were intentional – the series or two before he took off on the outside to my side, so I was intentional about trying not to let them go. Then you know he took off, took off up the middle the next time. So I don’t know, we have to look at it. It’s on all of us to get him on the ground and try to get off the field right there. That was the game”
On the five turnovers in the third quarter: “I can’t say I have ever seen that or been a part of it at least”
On what he can take about this about into the bye week: “I feel like we are a resilient group, and I’m very confident, and I love my teammates. You know, when you have a group of men who are willing to fight for each other and are sticking together and starting to believe in each other, that’s growing something special. But we have to keep getting better. It’s the first quarter of the season. Try to break the season up into quarters – first quarter of the season and you

know, we got two wins and we have to do better in the second quarter. That’s where the focus has to be and you know, kind of rejuvenate, get their body healthy. This (is the) bye weekend, get ready to go full press coming back.
LIONS QB MATTHEW STAFFORD QUOTE SHEET
On if this game will be remembered by the missed red zone opportunities: “Sure. Yeah. We had a chance to get points and didn’t get points three times, so it’s tough.”
On his fumble in the red zone: “I was trying to do too much, probably. I probably should have just thrown it away a little bit earlier. I was trying to buy a little bit of time. They only rushed three on the play., (No.) 91 (Chiefs defensive tackle Derrick Nnadi) was kind of spying. They had us covered up initially. I tried to buy a little bit of time and just lost the ball moving too much.”
On their perspective on RB Kerryon Johnson’s goal-line fumble: “I didn’t have a good view of it. I had no idea what was going on and then all of a sudden, their defensive players snagged the ball up and started running. It was kind of a crazy play, but there were a bunch of them in this game.”
On what he said to the team before the next series: “My point was, if we scored a touchdown there, the game wasn’t going to end. We didn’t win the game if we score a touchdown there. They don’t win the game because they score a touchdown. There was a lot of football left. I think there was what, nine or 10 minutes left in the third quarter something like that, maybe at that point. There was a lot of football left to play and they weren’t going to give us the game if we punched it in on second-and-one or third-and-one or whatever it was. You have to keep playing. It was a tough one. A big point swing in the end of the game, but I was really proud of the way our guys battled and the way we fought back. We lost some guys early in the game. We lost Quandre (Diggs) early in the game and guys just filled in and kept playing. It was awesome.”
On if he saw someone open when he fumbled: “Yeah, I thought Marvin Hall had a chance in the back of the endzone – at least a chance to throw it away. I probably should have just eaten it for a sack right there. Third-and-goal the chance of making the play are not so good. The chances of (Matt) Prater making a chip shot field goal are probably really good. Obviously, disappointed I put the ball on the ground.”
On if he feels like they proved something to people after today’s game: “I don’t think we need to prove anything to anybody. We love the way we practice, the way we work, the way we come out and play. We’re a good football team. We lost to another good football team today. There were a bunch of great plays in this game and a couple of bad plays by each team made in this game. That’s the way it goes in the NFL. It came down to the last 15 seconds. They were undefeated coming into this game, so were we. Somebody was going to have to lose. Obviously, you want to win them all at home. It was a good opportunity to beat a good team and we were darn close.”
LIONS S TRACY WALKER QUOTE SHEET
On the solace he takes in the performance today: “To be completely honest with you, we always shooting for the win. Me personally, I’m disappointed. I feel like we had that game and we left a lot of plays out there. And honestly, you just got to learn from mistakes. I guess it was a great battle. We went out there and we fought our hearts out and they made a few more plays than us.”
On how he felt the secondary played despite injuries: “I feel like we all played very well, I feel like. We had a lot of guys step up. Like you said, including injuries – Will Harris, Mike Ford, those guys stepped up and made a few plays. We got a great team. We definitely went out there and we fought to the teeth. We gave our all out and we just came up short.”
On if today showed that the Lions have a great team: “Definitely, I feel like we can compete with the best of them, obviously, that just showed. Kansas City is a great team. They’re considered the best team in the League, so they say. They have a great squad over there and I feel like we fought them teeth in and teeth out, so I say, all we can do is now, look at the mistakes we made, take the good with the bad and move on. We’ve got to get ready for Green Bay.”