I thought we were ready to play and I thought we showed we were ready to play. But for some reason after they scored their first goal we were like a deer in the headlights.
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I am ticked. I am ticked at what's happening there, because I thought our team played very well tonight, and this has gone on for quite a while. And I'm not up here trying to rip anybody apart, but let's be honest about what's going on here. It's getting old. We're going nowhere until that situation is straightened out.
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