Sham: “When you’re talking ab0ut the turnover margin, are you - don’t say “both” - are you more concerned about improving the way …“
Schottenheimer: “Both!”
Sham: “You cannot say “both”! Are you more concerned with the way you protect the ball or improving the rate at which you took it away.“
Schottenheimer: “Well, if you’re not going to let me say what I want to say …. I’m going to start with: If you don’t give it up, then you’re not going to lose the turnover battle. So if we don’t turn the ball over it’s going to be zero.”
“We proved it last year, Brad, that we could go four straight games [Weeks 4-7] without a turnover. There were too many multiple-turnover games [6] on offense. We were sloppy, we were careless with the ball. Mostly as ball carriers.”
“A couple of them were on third-and-long, like situations where we were checking the ball down, we were probably going to punt, and we ended up losing possession of the ball.”