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Game Vs. Patriots: Eagles Defense

CB Asante Samuel

On how difficult it is to stop Patriots QB Tom Brady: "It's difficult. He's a great player. They had the running game working and they had the passing game working. They were working on all cylinders. We couldn't figure anything out."

On how much it hurt not having Eagles CB Nnamdi Asomugha out on the field today: "Well, you know, it hurt. When you don't have all weapons out there, you know, you're always a step back. You have other players who you expect to come in and do a great job."

On how disappointing it is to beat the Giants last week and then lose at home to the Patriots today: "It's very disappointing. A loss is a loss. When you lose it's very disappointing."

On how the team will turn it around on a short week: "You go to work tomorrow, figure out your mistakes, find out what the game plan is, and go to work like never before."

On whether this is really a great team: "This is a really good team, a really good team. We have a lot of good athletes on the team and a lot of good playmakers and players. We just have to figure out how to put it together."

On why the team has not been able to figure out how to put it together: "New faces and new coaches. It takes time."

CB Joselio Hanson

On whether he had any words for Eagles WR DeSean Jackson: "I told him to keep his head up and let's get back to work on Monday."

On how he deals with the coach taking so much criticism: "As a player, I just have to control what I can control and try to get better every week. Today we didn't play good enough. We have a quick turnaround, start up tomorrow, try to work on our weaknesses, and go into the Seattle game with a new mindset."

On whether this team can still use the word "playoffs" anymore at this point: "As long as we're not mathematically out of it, I think we can. If there is still a possibility – I mean we went to the playoffs in 2008 and we were 9-7-1. Anything is possible. We might need some help, but anything is possible."

DE Jason Babin

On losing to the New England Patriots: "They're a really good team and they were putting together some really good drives, ate up some clock and put points on the board and we weren't able to stop them."

On what how he felt New England adjusted after the Eagles' opening drive: "They were just completing passes. Completion after completion and they put together a good plan."

On if he felt there were any points where he felt like the Eagles could not stop the Patriots: "Obviously there at the very end they had it wrapped up. We were still fighting the whole time. If you watch how the offense and defense played, they were playing as if the game was on the line, so my hat goes off to all of those guys."

DE Trent Cole

On the team moving forward: "That's pretty much what we have to do. We're fighters, we'll recoup and we'll all see each other tomorrow, get back to it like we're going to the next game. We have a short week here, we're a fighting team—and people see that. We just need to get things together. Every unit has to work together to win ball games. You can't commit turnovers and you can't have errors. We just have to go and move forward with this and see what happens here come Thursday."

On the Eagles playoff chances: "We're not going to stop fighting, anything can happen. This is the NFL. I've seen it all happen over the years, so we're going to keep fighting. We're known to keep fighting and everyone knows that. We don't stop."

On how the team continues to lose games, despite the core of talent the team has: "It's hard. We have a lot of great players on this team and it's hard to see us lose. We know what kind of talent we have, so we have to pull together—it's hard. We're not going to bow our heads, we're going to keep them up and keep moving forward, go make plays and go win ball games."

S Nate Allen

On how disappointing it is to not be able to string together a winning streak: "It's very disappointing. Coming off a big win, you always want to follow it up with a win. We want to win every game from here on out. But, the results are what they are. You can't put your finger on the one thing that it was—it was a combination of things. Like I said before, they just executed better than us."

On if he felt the coverage team was confused: "No, I wasn't confused. It was they just had a few plays where they got us on the coverage. [New England QB] Tom Brady is a great quarterback and he does what he does sometimes."

On if he is still seeing breakdowns of communication while out on the field: "No, not really, not necessarily. I mean, there's always a few miscommunications on things and that's part of the game. There's going to be that every Sunday. You just try to eliminate it as many of those as you can and just try to execute."

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