[6:05 p.m.: The New Orleans Saints beat the Carolina Panthers for their deluged city and the displaced victims of the Gulf Coast region, getting two touchdowns from Deuce McAllister and a 47-yard field goal from John Carney with 3 seconds left in a 23-20 season-opening win.] In the back of our minds, we know we have to give them one tiny bit of hope, ... We have complete faith in what we are doing because every time we go out there, it is our job to give them hope that every day will be a better day. |
A new season starts. We're zero and zero. |
Actually Malik (Hairston) called the meeting. It started as a conversation, then it got kind of heated, so they called everybody over. We just questioned everybody's heart. |
Any time they've got No. 4 on their football team, anything can happen. They could have an eight-game winning streak from here on out, so I'm not really too concerned about that. I'm only concerned about us as a football team going up there and trying to get a victory. |
As a football team, we're not looking for any handouts, ... We know it's going to be difficult, we know it's going to be hard. We're going to be fine and we're not going to use this as a crutch and say, 'Feel sorry for us and let us win this football game.' We're going to remain true to ourselves, stay as one as a football team. |
As a football team, we're not looking for any handouts. We'll band together as a team. We want to go out there and shed a lot of blood, sweat and tears. We want to make our people proud of us. We feel like that is our civic duty. |
Brandon's a great defender and he did a great job on me. They had great help and they did a good job of containing me. |
Coach is very frustrated. And he should be. |
Extremely embarrassed. We were questioning our pride. |
From the time we stepped out of the locker room going out there to warm up, they really were into it. They were excited about us being here and they embraced us. We thank them for it. |
Hopefully, we'll finally be settled into our routine. That will help out a lot. |
I actually feel more comfortable this year than last year. We've played Pac-10-caliber teams this year, and I don't think we did that last year. |
I am glad Kyle is on my side |
I couldn't make the throws I wanted to. I guess I'm not as Gumby as I thought I was. |
I don't know what it was. We just definitely didn't match their intensity. They had a lot more fire than we did. |