I know this -- none of our players said Champ Bailey didn't play hard when we beat them by three touchdowns last year out here. |
I might do it. I thought about it last week. |
I never had any plans to send him out of here, |
I personally predicted we'd win 12 games this season, and we didn't. Maybe we screwed up. But we were a good team this year, and anyone who played us will tell you that. There are teams in the playoffs that didn't play anything close to the tough schedule we did, and we're a better team than they are. |
I remember how I felt after the last play. It made all the stress and the hard work worthwhile. |
I saw him do four or five things like that. He can make mistakes and still run and catch up and make up for it. |
I think every time someone misses on somebody that glaringly, they go back and evaluate their reports, evaluate the scouts that wrote the reports. They deeply evaluate the whole situation better and see where they made a mistake, or if they did. |
I think he's brought defined purpose to the football team. Everything they do, there is a reason. There is a specific plan of action. I think he's brought leadership and discipline to the football team and direction - all things that leaders are hired to bring beyond Xs and Os. |
I think our defense is better than we played (Monday) night and I think our offense is better, but obviously we proved we don't play super every weekend, ... They whipped me, they whipped my coaches and they whipped my football team. |
I think that is a small price to pay for the right guy. To me, there have been a ton of first-round flops. . . . You get the right coach, he will change your organization. |
I think the key really, is that they played so hard. They played so determined. Our challenge was: what do you do when you have to. There are some teams-and I've coached them-when you have to get it done, you didn't get it done. |
I think there is an air of championship urgency. |
I think they've demonstrated that they are a playoff-caliber football team. |
I think they've demonstrated that they are a playoff-caliber football team. We just didn't get some things done that we had to get done at the time we needed to get them done. |
I think we can play better than that. I think we can play harder than that. I don't know if Champ Bailey said that to evaluate. |