I've never been one to stop anybody from having an opportunity to live out the dream. |
I've never had a problem with that. It's flattering to be wanted, and certainly I would never stand in the way of any of our coaches if they have a dream of becoming a head coach. If I can help them in any way I would certainly do so and will do so. |
I've never had any issues with Ben. I certainly have talked to him sometimes about choices and consequences, the same thing you do with any other player. But I have never had any problems with him in terms of our communications and what his responses are, and that's all I can ask. |
I've said this before. The first month of the season, you're creating an identity. It's not what you do in one game. It's not what you do in two games. |
I've talked to Russ and Ken and, like I said, it will be later in the week because we're in the process of game-planning for this game. We will provide that opportunity for them but there will be no more discussions about that from here on out. |
I've waited a long time for this. |
If Jerome is unable to go, Willie Parker will start, |
If that's the right situation for him, I would talk. If he wants any advice from me, I'd give it to him. Certainly the decision would be his and I'd share with him any advice that I would give to him. We'll see what happens and we'll go from there. |
If there's one and there's a large discrepancy, I'll just pick one guy, ... If it's close, I'll pick two. |
if we had executed it the right way. |
If we were opening up (the regular season) tomorrow, I think that's the way I'd go, |
If you go in as late as we're going in, I don't think it will have as big effect. When we had to go in two days before, as we did in Albuquerque, we lost the game -- the fumble, if you remember the fumble drive. |
If you look at our ownership, Mr. Rooney is a football guy and he understands how hard it is to do this. Nothing would be more satisfying to me than to hand him the Vince Lombardi trophy in two weeks. |
If you look at us two years ago, we were 6-10 and probably a lot like Tennessee, where the year before we were in the playoffs. Tennessee is coming off a tough year last year. As I told the team, two years ago they were 12-4 and came up here and whipped our tails pretty good in this stadium. |
Ike has played well enough to this point that I feel comfortable with him being out there. |