‘”We got beat on the football field, and sometimes your energy is taken from you when the game’s not going your way and they’re having their way, the other team,” said McDermott during his end-of-season press conference on Monday. “We were playing from behind early, and we had a hard time catching up. So that drains you of your energy after a while when you’re playing from behind the way we were. I think there’s always things that come up through a season, and our team did a phenomenal, phenomenal job of handling those areas, probably more than any team I’ve been around or any team, in terms of what they’ve gone through this season. But that said, they’re not excuses as to why we get the result we got.”‘