In the postgame press conference, I just want to clarify something. When I was asked about the two-minute drive at the end of the half, one thing that’s made clear to the head coach on the sideline is that (you) put your red flag away. So, I hand my red flag to Mike Parson, and they tell you that everything that’s reviewable is subject to a booth review. So, when (Rob) Gronkowski made the catch, upstairs, our guys said, ‘Hey look, I can’t really tell.’ It looked to me from the field that he made the catch. I don’t really have the benefit of nine different angles. The clock was running down, I basically wanted the Patriots to operate and see if they could do what they needed to do, relative to taking a timeout to allow New York more time to review. I very much realize that I can take a timeout there. I decided not to because I felt from my vantage point that it was a catch, and that’s what I went with. They didn’t buzz down in time, OK. I do realize that I can take a timeout, I just didn’t make that very clear. I didn’t answer that question very well last night. For that, I just wanted to clarify that. That was my decision based on what I was told from upstairs and then what I saw from the sideline and that’s how I decided to handle it. Hindsight being 20/20, with the benefit of eight different angles and all those things, surely I would have taken a timeout to see if they would at least buzz down to take a look at the play. But, they didn’t, and I didn’t do that. So, that’s exactly what happened and we ended up giving up a touchdown at the end of the half that didn’t help our cause, obviously. So, that’s kind of the way I saw that. So, with that, I’ll open it up to questions.”
After you went back and watched TE Rob Gronkowski’s catch, do you think it was a catch?
“You know, on the coaches film, I really do. He went up, he caught it, he kept both hands underneath it. Now, relative to some TV angles and some other video angles that I’ve seen, maybe it was questionable. But, from the coaches vantage point on the coaches tape, it looked like a catch to me. The (DeAndre) Hopkins catch on the pop-pass to Hopkins, I wasn’t sure if that was a catch. Coach (Bill) Belichick challenged that, they ruled that a catch, so, I just felt like that was a catch. The clock was running and I felt like I did not want to take a timeout there. I felt like we still could hold them to a field goal in that situation.”