It’s not very often you have a ballgame where you say, ‘There’s really only one throw I’d like back.’ There were probably two in that ballgame. They dropped a coverage on (wide receiver) Pierre (Garcon). I think it was in the second quarter. We would have had a touchdown. He didn’t see it in time. He went to (wide receiver) Blair (White) and it actually ended up being an incompletion. Then, there was the sprint-out throw to Blair, which is a tough throw, on the last play prior to the field goal. If that ball is perfect, it’s going to be a completion. It was down low and Blair couldn’t hold onto it. That was unfortunate, because we would have gotten the first down, run out the clock and kicked a field goal and gone home. Other than that, (it was) a perfect night. It was great, great game management by Peyton and by (Offensive Coordinator) Clyde (Christensen). Clyde called a phenomenal game, given the way they were playing, what they were taking away from us. We made high-percentage throws. We ran the ball very, very well. We didn’t run for big yardage, but we ran for good yardage and very important yardage. In the second half, it paid off for us. Defensively, I don’t know that we’re capable of playing any better than we played, especially given all the injuries. That’s true on offense, too. You don’t have (tight end) Dallas Clark. You don’t have (wide receiver) Austin Collie. You don’t have (wide receiver) Anthony Gonzalez. That’s a pretty big loss factor there. I would say, given the fact that those guys were out, we played almost flawlessly offensively. (Right tackle) Jeff Linkenbach was just tremendous and the offensive line, I thought, did a pretty good job overall. (Left tackle) Charlie (Johnson) had a very, very good night. The two tackles were superb. Defensively, I don’t think we can play much better than we played
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