Bill Belichick, Head Coach

BB:Alright. Well, I thought that was a tremendous effort by both teams tonight. That's about as competitive of a game as you can get. Unfortunately, we just couldn't quite make enough plays and we could certainly micro analyze probably 100 plays in the game. They're all important. They're all critical. You get into a close game like that and there's a lot of things that could've made a difference one way or the other. But in the end give Seattle credit. They've got a good football team and they played just a little bit better than we did tonight and I'm proud of the way we competed. We've just got to do a better job. It starts with me. Coaches, players - I mean we just got to do better. Again, Seattle is tough. They force you into some mistakes. They do a great job. Not to take anything away from them but there's just some things we've got to do a better job of. Those showed up tonight. We need to work harder on them and be able to perform better in these kinds of situations. We need to turn the page here and move on. [We have] a tough week. Going out to San Francisco will be a big challenge. We'll get ready for them but we're going to have to turn the page and move on. Again, a very highly competitive game tonight with just a little bit of a disappointment in the way it turned out. We just couldn't quite do enough to change the outcome

Q:What did you see on the final play of that last offensive series? Did you think it was pass interference?

BB:It was a really competitive play. I thought the game was well-officiated. They did a good job of letting the players play. I mean they called some things they had to call. I focus really on our team, what we can do. That's what we need to do.

Q:What did you see on the touchdown play Seattle had right before the end of the first half?

BB:We broke down. Just a bad play.

Q:How do you feel the secondary played and is that an area of concern going forward?

BB:Yeah, I think it's everything. You can't turn the ball over. We had penalties. I mean take away a five-yard penalty on the last drive [and] we score instead of being on the two-yard line. I mean there are a million plays like that. Defensively we made some stops in the red area but certainly missed a lot of opportunities to get off the field on third-down, gave up some big plays. Kicking game - same thing. There's certainly a lot of things that could've been better on special teams, not that it was all bad, it was competitive. But there's just things we could do better, need to do better, need to coach better, need to play better.

Q:What did you see on the touchdown play Seattle had right before the end of the first half?

BB:We just didn't play it very well, obviously. I think it goes without saying.

Q:What did you see on Kam Chancellor's hit on Tom Brady and did that affect Tom going forward at all?

BB:Yeah, I didn't really get a good look at it.

Q:What was your reaction to seeing Pete Carroll decide to go for the two-point conversion after their final touchdown?

BB:Yeah, that was an aggressive call; an aggressive call on the road.

Q:On your final offensive drive were you trying to also kill some clock while trying to score or was that not a concern?

BB:We were definitely trying to score but I'd say managing the clock was part of it.

Q:What do you mean when you say you've got to coach better and that it starts with you?

BB:Well, I mean there was a multitude of plays out there that had they been a little bit different they would've helped us in the overall result. I've got to coach us better. I've got to spend better time coaching, need better execution. We need to do a better job. There are 100 plays we could talk about. Part of that's my responsibility, the coaching staffs responsibility, the players responsibility. It's all of us so we've all just got to do a better job. Not that everybody's not trying hard; it's just nothing close to what it needed to be. It just needs to be a little bit better against a good team like Seattle. We've got to coach it better, we've got to execute it better, we've got to work at it harder.

Q:Does anything stand out to you as a reason for why the defense may not be turning the ball over as much as we've seen in the past?

BB:It's something we need to do a better job of. We're turning it over too much and we're not turning it over enough on defense and special teams. It's not the way we want to be so we're at minus-two tonight. That's not really a good formula. Honestly we're lucky it wasn't worse than that to tell you the truth.

Q:Is the defense allowing 31 points tonight maybe a wakeup call to the whole unit?

BB:I mean look, we go into every game trying to score as many points as possible and limit the opponent to as few points as possible. I can't imagine it will be any different than that. That's always what it's been, that's always what it's going to be. What else would it be? I think we came into this game and we were right there with Seattle, right? Fewest points allowed, top whatever it was, whatever the rankings were. I don't know. Get down to within a few inches of it being a 31-31 game. You've got two good football teams out there. They had a good defense, we had a good defense. They had a good offense, we had a good offense. I mean you were at the game.

Q:What led to Trey Flowers seemingly getting some more opportunities tonight?

BB:There's really no difference for any players on the team. Everybody earns their playing time. Players that play the best earn the playing time. If they play better than another player then they play more than the other player. If another player plays better than them then they play less than the other guy. You earn your opportunities. You earn your playing time. That's the way it is.

Q:How do you think Trey Flowers did with those opportunities tonight?

BB:We'll look at the film. He's played competitively for us all year.

Q:Do you feel you've had to utilize a little more zone defense due to the number of mobile quarterbacks you've faced?

BB:I wouldn't say that. I mean we were in quite a bit of man coverage tonight. I'd say we probably in the end tonight had more success playing zone than we did playing man. They did a good job, especially early in the game. They had some tough man-beater matchups, formations that they do a good job of that. [Russell] Wilson made some great throws, some good catches, good receivers. They got us on a couple man-beaters, got us on some man routes. We were competitive on some and they got us on some.

Q:Was Tom Brady's quarterback sneak on third-down at the end of the game a designed call or is that something he can check into?

BB:Well again, look I'm not going to get into the specific calls. I mean we'd be here all night talking about every play and 15 things that could've been different on each play. We have different ways of calling plays. We have different ways of calling defenses. Some of that depends on the situation. Some of it depends on the way the play is called. But I mean I'm certainly not going to stand here and have a 15 minute conversation about every play. I mean we'd be here all night.

Q:Is there anything specific that's causing you guys to fumble more on offense and on special teams?

BB:Yeah, that's definitely a problem. Our ball security is not what it needs to be. We've addressed it. We obviously have to keep addressing it more and find a way to improve it. We can't keep turning the ball over.

Q:Are some of defensive breakdowns more a result of the scheme or perhaps a lack of communication?

BB:I think each individual play has its own criteria to talk about and tomorrow to correct and address. I mean they run a lot of different plays. We run a lot of different defenses. They match up differently. I mean it's certainly not all one thing but in total we obviously need to do a better job than what we're doing. That's all the way across the board, all the areas of the defense; front, coverage, run defense, turnovers, you name it. It's not all bad but it needs to be better.