"It looked like the past, to be quite honest with you."

Woof. That quote was from Coach Loeffler. And he's right.  It did.  Gibby said it was among the worst games he had ever seen us play and I can't disagree and I have seen a bunch of them.  So have you.  But this was just the worst.  Bad play piled on top of bad play.  And this was a team that we were supposed to be equal with.  And we are supposed to be competitive with teams in our conference and we simply are not.  Key phrase is "something missing."

There was no one there to start with and even less by the end of the game.  Here is what it looked like under the Doyt at halftime.

Coach Loeffler did not mince any words.  There was no talk about UB being some kind of secretly great team.  More to come, but here is what Coach had to say, and I'm not sure I could say it any more accurately.

On taking responsibility for today’s loss:

“In all three phases, to play as bad as they did, it starts with me. I’ll take responsibility for it.

We’re supposed to be competitive, and we were as far from competitive today as you can

possibly get.”

On the disappointment of today’s loss:

“We’re supposed to be competitive. That team right there that we just played was equivalent

to us, and we didn’t play well in all aspects. We need to figure it out, we need to get it fixed.

We’re playing a good Miami of Ohio team next week, but that was as disappointing a half and

disappointing a game that I’ve had probably in my career.”

On playing competitive football:

“I expected this would be a heck of a football game, and on paper it should have been. There’s

something missing that you can go and play as well as we’ve ever played around here in a long

time to playing as bad as you can play, and that’s the truth. The Marshall game, we played as

well as you can possibly play. You play that type of competitive football, you have a chance to

beat anyone in this league, but that was a debacle. . . we crushed ourselves, plain and simple.

We beat ourselves in every aspect.”

On emotions in the game of football:

“I thought preparation was as good as we’ve prepped. I did not like the emotion of our team on

our sidelines. They [Buffalo] had emotion, we didn’t, and I don’t understand that. That’s the

part of the puzzle that I don’t get. This is an emotional game, and obviously I’ve got to figure

out how to get their emotions going because that was not an emotional football game

whatsoever for us.”

On takeaways from today’s game:

“If you don’t take lessons from today, you’re out of your mind. We’ve got to get consistent. You

can’t play this up and down and be this up and down from week to week. We’ve got to find that

secret sauce. If you go out here and you play your ass off and you’re disciplined and you did all

the things you’re supposed to do and you lose, that’s one thing. . . but it looked like the past, to