Q Everyone thought the offensive line would be better

I feel very good about going into the offseason, but I want to see these next three games. I’m not going to minimize these three games and see how we continue to develop.” Q: Fans see an unprecedented quality of head coaching candidates available like Bill Cowher, Tony Dungy, maybe Mike Holmgren and Mike Shanahan. Does that have any impact on your decision-making process as far as what to do with LovieA: No, it doesn’t Not at all. We’re going to do what we feel we need to do to win and become the kind of team that we know we can be. There probably will be more things to talk about this year in the offseason, yes, I’m not minimizing that, and we’ll do that and we’ll do that rightly. Q: Everyone is talking about Lovie's situation and his evaluation process. What about your own evaluation process, how will that go Will that be any different than in any previous yearA: I’m evaluating myself too.

But I do know this: We all share into what happened this year. I’m not going to sit here and put blame on any one thing. When we sit down and visit and I talk to ownership as well as the coaches, our personnel people, it will be an organizational decision on what we do going forward on everything. I can’t say any more than that, because we haven’t made any definitive evaluations on anything right now All this right now is premature talk I understand these questions are out there. I’d like to give you answers right now, but I can’t because we still have some football left to play. Q: Does Lovie have control over who he keeps and who goes on the coaching staffA: Lovie has always had control of his staff, determining his hires, and I have always felt that the head coach has to have that autonomy with his staff That’s never been in question Do I have input Yes. Like Lovie has input on personnel, he’ll ask, as he has in the past, about assistant coaches that we’ve brought in. Where you run with that, how you talk about it, you’re going to say what you want, you’re going to spin it the way that you want to spin it.

I’m just telling you right now that at the end of the year, we will evaluate everything.Q: Not to be argumentative, but if you said he is back, you would end speculation.A: You got the point of my answer.Q: You mentioned young receivers. Do you regret not getting an established NFL receiver before the seasonA: Do you think the receiver position has been our problemQ: I'm just asking.A: I don’t think it could have helped I thought our receiver position played pretty well. There are other things that maybe we didn’t do as well, but I felt that turned out to be a pretty good position of strength. I want to see it continue in these next three weeks because we have a lot of young guys.Q: Everyone thought the offensive line would be better. Are you disappointed in the line A: I am disappointed that we weren’t able to play consistently on offense That’s all As I said, I could say the same thing about our defense We weren’t good on third down on defense We spent too much time on the field on defense. We weren’t good in the red zone on offense or on defense. We will be talking about schemes, we will be talking about everything, guys, so nothing will go unnoticed, untalked about in any area because we failed expectations, it’s the bottom line We didn’t do the things that we felt we were gonna do. So we will go back, we’ll evaluate and we will come out stronger for it. .

Here are the next couple of races from that roller coaster seasonValencia 2009 Saturday QualifyingAfter some great times in all three practice sessions leading up to Saturday qualifying, Brawn were rubbish when it really mattered. Of course, to finish P3 and P5 sounds ok on paper, but when you consider the perfect hot conditions and the promise, it simply wasnt good enough. We later learned that they had done a good job when fuel corrected, but there was still room for improvement.The first session was tense with both Brawn men wobbling. Though Rubens finished in P8, Jenson managed to get me excited by topping the sheets in Q1.The Brawn driver's fortunes were reversed in Q2 when Rubens finished top this time and Jenson in P6. In the final session Jenson looked good early on whilst Rubens opted to only do a couple of runs to save tyres.This was a risky strategy but it was encouraging that Rubes had the confidence to do it. All of the racing was done over pit stops, I didnt see a single manoeuvre (bar the usual madness at the start), and the boring circuit gave us little other than the feeling that Valencia looks like a hot and inviting part of Spain.Having said that, Brawns strategy really paid off and gave both drivers decent results.