Head coach Tom Coughlin met the media after his Giants dropped their preseason opener to the Jaguars, 32-31:

(on turnovers) “We do the best we can and move forward. The number one thing is ball security as a punt returner.  The first thing you have to do is catch the ball. We also have a lot of people who quite frankly don’t know what they’re doing. They may have some talent and ability, but they’re going to have to spend some more time trying to figure out how to do what we’re asking them to do.”

(on if the problems in the return game are recurring forJerrel Jernigan “lt looked like he took his eye off of it. I didn’t see it. Give credit to the punter; he punts the ball very, very high, but all you have to do is signal fair catch and concentrate totally on catching the ball. You don’t have to go through all that.”

(on the end of the game) “As it was, we had the ball near the midfield stripe and had to get to the about the 35 (yard line) to try for a long field goal. I think if Ryan (Perrilloux) had had a little protection, he could have gotten the ball into somebody’s hand or even out of bounds. He didn’t have time to do anything.”

(on if the team got big plays from David Wilson “Yeah we did. We hoped we would have some other opportunities out there where he really could have helped us to be in position to win the game. That’s what we were trying to do quite frankly was get him the ball.”

(on whom he thought played well) “I thought Rueben Randle played well and made some good plays for a young guy. Some of the defensive guys were able to flash. They certainly got a lot of snaps. It’s too bad it worked out quite the way it did. Our linebackers continue to be a problem for us. A lot of those kids got a lot of plays. They seemed to do okay.”

(on the first play of the last drive) “We were in perfect shape because we had the three time outs. We could run the ball. We could do anything we wanted to do, but somehow we have a misunderstanding as to what the play is. A lot of that is he (Perrilloux) just needs more work in that situation. We’ve had a limited amount of two-minute drill work, but the ones (starters) went twice, the twos were twice and I think the threes had it once. We knew if it came down to it at the end of the game, it would be Ryan and that group who would have to put us in position to win and it didn’t happen.”