We looked very, very hard at Baltimore's kickoff coverage, and they are very talented, |
We need to be smart about the decision we make from a (salary) cap standpoint early in the season. You get later on in the season, things change. We felt Jarrett was going to be able to stand up and fill in for (Travis). |
We needed to get the points to have a shot to get the second possession, |
We never expected them to do that to our defense, especially when we were in some must stop situations. |
We now have to maintain this level of play, and that is the challenge week to week. |
We play these games to win them. If you don't win them, you have to look at other things, and I'm looking at performance, production and good things across the board. |
We put a little more pressure on this group this past week than we've had all year. And you could say, 'why didn't you more pressure on them earlier in the year?' Well, we're still pulling this team together. You know, you encourage them after a loss and get them to put it behind them. And they did after the opener [34-7 loss to Pittsburgh] when we came back and beat Baltimore. |
We still have an awful lot to accomplish, but I feel like at this point we've done that. We've stayed healthy, gotten a lot out of the young players. |
We think all three quarterbacks are outstanding prospects. We've done our homework. We've been to their pro days, and we've worked them out individually. We think all three are going to play a long time in this league. |
We want to go out there and just watch them execute. We put a little more pressure on them to do the right thing on the practice field. Basically what we do is we've got a lot of offense in, so be prepared for anything and the same thing from the defensive standpoint. |
We want to make sure that we have somebody who can do it in case something happens to Kenny, ... We intended on doing that, and he did a nice job. He'll get a couple more opportunities in the preseason. |
We were getting questions about the content of some of the sites, and as a result, we took them all off. |
We were outplayed in a number of areas today. We know Miami can run the football and we have a great deal of respect for Ricky (Williams). But, we never expected them to do that to our defense, especially when we were in some must stop situations. |
We were very impressed with his athletic ability, his footwork, his arm strength, his delivery, his body language, huddle presence, all those things. We're certainly not misled by his statistics. We paid a lot more attention to what he was able to do on the practice field. He's quite a talent. We're very impressed. |
We'll pick up significant cap, because of the suspension without pay. So, there could be other options. We're probably going to make a roster move. Obviously, we have Damien Nash on the roster right now. Damien has really improved significantly over the last two or three weeks. Jarrett Payton is certainly a possibility. We can get Jarrett up he knows the offense. We're going to look around to see if there is more possibilities. |