Everybody in the Bay Area wanted this team to be in the playoffs, and all of the players wanted it as well. But we did not meet the expectations everybody had for wins and losses for this team. A lot of people may see it as a disappointing year.

I got beat up the first few minutes of the game. I have to set the tone early.

He's a big dude. You have to do your homework on where he wants to get to. I read it very well. You know where it's coming from but it doesn't always mean you'll get it.

It was extremely difficult, ... Coach felt like he needed to make a change, and he did, and I was the person that got changed. For whatever reason, right or wrong, as a player you're still trying to figure out what you did wrong.

Lowest I've been in a long time,

People don't see what an incredible will he has. There's a lot of leaders that are good who are not able to kind of get the message across, bend people to his will. I think that Baron has an amazing and infectious gift that he can come into a locker room and really make people believe and really make people better. I think people have seen him have fun with the game, but they haven't seen the kind of forceful personality he has.