SAN FRANCISCO – Here are postgame quotes from Donte Whitner, courtesy of the 49ers.
What was the feel in the locker room and how did the guys take this loss?
“It’s a hard loss. We prepared so hard. We circled it on our calendar, on our schedule. We let it slip through our hands and we gave up too many big plays. We gave up entirely too many big plays and that has to be corrected.”
Can you talk about the pass rush? It seems like you guys gave [QB Tony] Romo a lot of pressure but it felt like at times you guys were just a split-second behind him.
“He’s really good. Once he recognized that there’s five or six guys coming he, [TE Jason] Witten and a lot of those guys are really his hot route. They break their routers off so, he has one of the quickest releases in the National Football League and he did a good job of getting it out of his hands.”
How about the end, the 77-yard reception, what happened on that?
“We were in quarters. We were in quarters to that side and there was a miscommunication with the corner and myself and the guy took off for that deep post. I’ll let coach Harbaugh and the rest of the coaching staff really go in depth into that, but it was just a mistake.”
Do you guys feel like you played good enough to win this game?
“We felt like we played good enough but still, we had an ample amount of opportunities out there to end the game, to win the game. We let it slip through our hands. We’re not going to hold our heads down. It’s one football game out of 15, we have 14 games left to go, but if we want to get to where we want to go we can’t allow big plays.”
Is there something you guys can build on?
“There are some things that we can build but we don’t want to just take the positive out of this game, we wanted to come away with a W. But we have to go back and watch the film. We have to be hard on ourselves, we have to allow the coaching staff to be hard on us. We have to come out and correct the mistakes that we made because we felt like we had an opportunity to win this football game. We expected to win this football game and we didn’t.”
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