His response was fine. Yeah, you can argue it should have been worded better, but he's trying to make clear that these players are human beings and that they need to deal with the aftermath of this tough game before someone is immediately asking what they're doing next.
In the NFL teams take Monday and parts of Tuesday to focus on the last opponent instead of going straight to the next one.
Sometimes it feels like we on this board just enjoy condemning and criticizing people unnecessarily and it's not a good look for our fan base when we obsess over things like this