O'Brien added. ''And it still came down to a last-second stop on the 1-inch line. That just shows you the talent that they have and the capabilities they have.

That's encouraging, ... but no solace. The bottom line is we lost this game and we should have won.

You get held to a high standard, almost an unmaintainable standard, in the public eye that you don't even come close to touching.

It was just a jog for them.

It was his first game as a full-time starter for us. We have a lot of talent around him, a lot of veteran players. He doesn't need to be Joe Montana right now. He has time to develop into that. As long as we play well around him, I think he'll continue to develop and be the great quarterback we expect him to be.

It's two very evenly matched teams. We're quite familiar with what they do, but they know what our tendencies are.