Q. One of the things I wondered about when it happened was on the Patriots' fourth-and-1 from your own 28-yard line with 1:07 left in the fourth quarter, you called your second timeout. What were you looking to accomplish there?

A. I wanted to give our guys a chance to exhale. I wanted to be able to look them in the eye, talk about some things that we could anticipate under that scenario, get in a good call. Just handle all the minutia. It was a big down, certainly, and so the communication and the planning component of it was more important than the timeout we utilized. With the timeout we're able to communicate with our guys, give them a call, give them some finer detail points and go out and execute the play.

Q. Also, after that game you referred to "ball search culture," a reference

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