Oakland Raiders cornerback Nnamdi Asomugha talked to the press after yesterday’s 44-7 loss against the New York Giants. Here are highlights of his media session after the game.
On the New York Giants:
They were a good team. They are a pretty good team. You watch them on film and you know they are good, but you, its different when they come out and are hitting everything like that.
A good team, balanced on offense and they are going to blitz you on defense and it worked out.
When a reporter asked, how do you not let losses like this discourage you?
You got to look at the loss. You can’t move past it. You have to look at it. You have to study it. You have to get better from it. Right now, we are not playing very good football.
A reporter asked about what signs of change are foreseeable?
It would take a win in one of these games for us to kind of shake off all of the negative energy. But right now, we are underachieving as a football team. We’ve got so much talent. The other guys after the game, every team comes up to us, ‘Man, you guys are probably the most talented we’ve played against’, but you just can’t keep on underachieving at a high level. There’s times where we should just really be dominating and its completely the other way around.
About the Giants avoiding him:
Well, Eli [Manning] said after the game that that was the plan. And you hear that no matter what team that you are playing against.
About the team’s play:
It’s not lack of effort, so you can say it’s the physical part of it is fine. Is the mental part that needs to take a step up and that’s how you dispel all the talk of underachieving. It’s about knowing where you are supposed to be on the field, helping the team out, playing smarter, and that’s where we need to take a step up. Physically we are fine. We draft all the speed in the world and all the size in the world, so you know we are going to have some talent. Mentally, we just have to play better.
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