Everything Bill Belichick said after Dolphins eliminated Patriots from playoff contention - MassLive.com

After the Dolphins knocked the Patriots out of playoff contention, Bill Belichick was predictably downcast.

Here’s everything the coach said after a 22-12 loss dropped New England’s record to 6-8 on the season:

“Yeah, well, it’s obviously a disappointing day for us. We didn’t do anything really well enough to win the game. We just didn’t coach well enough. Didn’t ... Missed opportunities and Miami was just better than we were today. That’s the bottom line. We all ... Just came up short. To win these games, we got to do a better job. I got to do a better job and collectively as a staff and a team, we’ve pot to perform better than this.”

(What do you think contributed to the run defense struggling today?)

“I have to coach better, we pot to play better, we pot to tackle better. It’s a combination of all those thinps.”

(At the end of the game, down by the 1 0, how much consideration was there to maybe kick the field goal just to get three, hopefully on the board, and then knowing you needed a touchdown after that instead of going for it?)

“We thought about it. It was fourth-and-2. So you know, still poinp to need a touchdown at some point. Tried to pick it up on fourth-and-2, but we didn’t.”

(Last one, did you have a chance at all to catch up with CB Stephon Gilmore and any update on him?)

“No, I don’t have any update.”

(You guys had them pinned back deep a few times today, were doing pretty well with field position and they sustained several long drives. How frustrating was that?)

“Yeah, we didn’t do a good job in those situations where we had the field position, we didn’t keep it. We didn’t pet the ball back to the offense in good field position, put them in a long field too many times. That all certainly contributed to the performance of the day.”

(Certainly a hallmark of your team over the last 20 years has been improvement throughout the season. Second straight week the run defense has been gassed pretty badly. What do you see going on there? How frustrating is that?)

“Yeah, all the things I just said. Same, again. It’s all the same things.”

(There were a couple of instances where receivers would fumble the ball immediately after catches. I assume that’s something you guys work on quite a bit. How do you work on improving that?)

“We just keep working on it. Nothing more important than ball security. Ours wasn’t good enough. We didn’t have good enough ball security today. Didn’t hurt us as much as it could have, but it hurt us and it will hurt us more if we don’t do a better job with it.”

(What do you tell the gentlemen in the locker room after this loss to fight for the rest of the season here?)

“Well, that’s what we do.”

(Was there anything with their run game that they threw at you guys today that was new or unexpected? I know they had some key pass catchers that were out for them, so I’m curious if anything changed with their run game today from what you had seen before this week?)

“I think I’ve already talked about that. We have to do a better job of coaching, they have to do a better job of playing, defeating blocks and we certainly have to do a better job of tackling. It’s a combination of all those things.”

(With this loss you guys were eliminated from playoff contention, first time since 2008. Just wondering your reaction to that.)

“Yeah, well, disappointed, but we didn’t deserve to win today.

(I know it’s hard to look ahead already, but does it change your message to the players that the playoffs are officially off the table?)

“No, not too much.”

(Just wondering what happened on the 12 men on field penalty there.)

“We had a substitution error.”

(Are you disappointed that this late in the season you’re still having things like that?)

“Of course.”

(In the second half they get three touchdowns in their first four possessions. Anything schematically that you thought was a significant adjustment from the first half?)

“No. Not really.”

(Is there anything you would explain away or ascribe that big jump in their performance, at least from a scoring standpoint there from what you had seen in the first half?)

“No. It was pretty much a continuation of the same thing.”

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