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What they're saying about Bucs-Bears

 
Published Nov. 24, 2014

Bucs coach Lovie Smith, whose team had four turnovers while forcing only one:

"It's tough to win football games when you lose the turnover ratio. Normally that's tough to do, especially on the road against a good football team."

Bucs DT Gerald McCoy:

"There wasn't enough takeaways on our end. That was the problem. We didn't take the ball away enough. What did we have, one? Yeah, that ain't going to win it. We have to do more than that. We have to score on defense, something."

Bucs rookie WR Mike Evans, on his taunting penalty after scoring a touchdown:

"There was just some friendly smack talk. I wasn't thinking about the personal foul. I wasn't thinking about it, but I hurt my team."

Bucs QB Josh McCown:

"Disappointing, disappointing. Came out and started the game the way we wanted to, and the third quarter killed us. Our defense played good. They played the way we want them to play. That dip there in the third quarter really hurt us."

Bears QB Jay Cutler:

"They have some good guys. It's not like they don't get paid, too. They have some guys that can play football on that side of the football. We just have to look at the film, figure out exactly where the breakdowns were — what we were doing wrong collectively and individually and move on."

Bears coach Marc Trestman:

"Dropped balls, penalties, tipped balls — all of that. As I said to the guys at halftime, there was no one guy. We passed it around to everybody. You just can't be efficient playing football that way. When we get over that, we'll move the ball effectively … and we did. We played better in the second half, certainly."

Times staff