the 4th star

Bob Irving: In fairness, Mike Kelly did say more than once this week that (his team) has a chance to clinch a playoff spot if we can beat Montreal, but like you, and you know you wonder about these things after a game like this, were the players — as much as they said they were — were their minds really on this or were they down the road (looking ahead) to a game that, regardless of what they did today, could give them a home playoff game.

Mitch Zalnasky: Well, I think what happens is you go into the game thinking and hoping that you could —

Irving: OK. Hey, Mitch. I’m going to have to stop you, Mitch. Mike Kelly is standing by. We have technical problems down on the field, Mike’s good enough to join us via cell phone, and Mike give us your thought about what happened here today.

Mike Kelly: Well first of all I’m listening to all this garbage right now and I’m telling ya, we were focused in on this game and that’s the only thing we were focused in on, and it’s just media bullshit talking about anything else. So, you know, all this is…Ok, they taught us a lesson today — there you go. They put us over (their) knee…but we were focused in on this game and it just didn’t happen for us. And that’s the way it is — period.

Irving: Well, that’s fair Mike, it just didn’t look like you were focused, that’s all. I’m not saying you weren’t —

Kelly: Doesn’t look like we’re — here, you know what. I’m giving (the phone) to Darren (Cameron, the Bombers media guy). Don’t tell me that we were or were not focused! This football team came out and played! Period! Here’s Darren…

(silence)

Irving: Well…

Zalnasky: OK.

Irving: I don’t quite know what to make of that.

Zalnasky: Pardon me.

Irving: I said I don’t know quite what to make of that.

Zalnasky: Well, I don’t know…doth protest too much, perhaps? Would that be a fair assessment? OK, he wants to establish that they were focused today — well, they didn’t play like they were focused today.

Irving: That’s the point. They didn’t play like they were focused today. I don’t think we were saying they weren’t focused — it didn’t look like they were….Mike Kelly goes off the deep end. I don’t know why he’s so upset about some of the things we were saying? It’s almost  like it was a personal insult to him, what we were suggesting, and it’s the farthest thing from it. It’s not like we’re saying the team wasn’t focused and it’s all his fault. I don’t know why he’d feel that way.

Zalnaksy: What I was going to say before Mike came on is that you go into the game focused, but if things start to turn against you, you start to lose some of that intensity — because you know you have next week’s game to salvage. I think that’s partly what happened…Game’s over, forget it and move forward, and that’s going to be the challenge Mike Kelly has is to forget this game and move forward.

Irving: In the meantime, his reaction with us on this post game show has been, in my opinion, Mitch, regrettable and frankly, quite juvenile.

Zalnasky: I agree with that also, Bob. You have to face the music regardless of the critics — if we’re being critical of the outcome of the game and to take that approach  I think is just…I don’t know. It doesn’t speak to what I think a head coach should do after a loss. You explain it, and then you move forward. He didn’t decide to explain it, he decided to take…

Irving: …Umbrage with us speculating on how they got beat 48-13.

Zalnasky: This wasn’t a close football game. It wasn’t like this was a 15-13 game — this was 48-13.

Irving: Mitch, I’ll stop you. Barrin Simpson has joined us on the post game show and hopefully he won’t be quite so rude when we discuss the contest with him.

Chris Snee: What the fuck are you doing out here, Eli?

Eli Manning: I don’t know.

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