Obviously the heart and the energy -- as well as the production -- that Marques provided us was just a tremendous punctuation point to the career that he's had at Virginia. He's been a special player for us in the things he's been able to do and how he's been able to energize this team. |
Obviously this is one of the most inexperienced teams we've had, as indicated by the fact that we only have one senior in the defensive lineup. But we have a lot of talented young players, so they just need a lot of days like this to come on. It's going to be very important that we bring them on as fast as we can. |
Obviously, somebody will be ahead to start with, based on fall performance and so forth, but it probably will be an open horse race here in the spring. |
On a play two plays earlier, Brad was blocking Mathias and cut-blocked him to finish the play -- in full view of the umpire, |
One of the Walsh tenets that he says repeatedly in his book, is that in his offense 50 percent of all the passing yardage should come on yards after the catch. So, if that's what you're banking on, if there's not much yards after catch, then you have a lot of short throws, a lot of catches for minimal yardage that don't amount to a great deal of production. |
Other than the building itself, there's little about the Jets that's the same as it was when we were there. So I don't really know enough about the team to be able to speculate as to how he might fit in. He's a very adaptable guy and his poise and self-confidence enables him to really fit into any environment, and he certainly did that very easily when he went to Atlanta. |
Our attitude with tight ends here is the more the merrier. I don't know if we'll get to four tight ends, but we certainly wouldn't be averse to having three in there. |
Our intent from the start was really to invest heavily in this position. |
Our last message at halftime was something that we had said early in training camp. We just reminded the players that battles are not won by digging in. If you dig in, you just become a target. Battles are won by attacking. The players did a very good job of that, and they can be proud of themselves. |
Our mentality is that no matter who we're playing, you'd better ready to prove yourself every week. Teams that don't have that mentality usually end up with an unpleasant result. |
Please allow me to introduce myself, I'm a man of wealth and taste. |
Probably one of these wide receivers will have a chance to play in the game in a certain role. |
Really it's not the secondary that's being tested, ... it's the pass defense. |
Really, we haven't addressed that or made any determination. |
So many of them played so early and for so long that they were around for a long time. |