Look at the teams we played when I was not there - Indy, Minnesota, Green Bay, Philadelphia - that's four playoff teams right there. I don't think it's a significant statistic. We just have to play better when I'm not in there or play easier teams. |
Maybe we shouldn't get a bye week anymore. |
No one believed us back then, but there was really no doubt in our mind how good we can be. |
No one gives us respect. They do, but kind of begrudgingly. But we haven't beaten anyone in the playoffs yet, and we need to win playoff games to get respect. Everyone in the room knows that. |
Only time will tell. We feel like we have good players. We brought Moose in, we brought Fred Miller in on offence, |
Our third downs were terrible. We have to make more plays on third down. We have to get better. |
People are realizing we have some good players here. Anytime you lose, nothing really matters except winning. ... People realize that when you win, you obviously have some good players on your team. |
Rivera turned us loose today, ... He called a bunch of blitzes -- they worked. We got a bunch of pressure, and when he did get rid of the ball we tackled the guys. We flew around and had a good time. |
Steve Smith – that is what happened to us. He just kept making plays. When they needed a play, he made it and we did not. He is the best offensive player in the league. |
Steve Smith, that's what happened to us. |
Steve Smith, that's what happened to us. He just kept making plays. We had a plan. We never really doubled him. We ran a lot of Cover 2, and obviously that didn't work out too good for us. |
Takeaways, stopping the run, and as long as we don't turn the ball over, I think we'll be OK, ... If we don't give them a chance to score with their defense on the field, we'll be OK. |
Takeaways, stopping the run, and as long as we don't turn the ball over, I think we'll be OK. If we don't give them a chance to score with their defense on the field, we'll be OK. |
Thank goodness [Moss] is gone so we can do different things to them now. We can put eight guys in the box now. We used to just play cover-2 pretty much the whole game and let them gash us in the running game. I think we'll be able to change that up a little bit. |
That was unbelievable. It was awesome. I've never been a part of something like that. The game's usually over unless you get some great plays like we did, but the ball was bouncing our way that year. |