He's a hard-nosed player. He's worked hard to fine-tune his techniques. He's a young player that we've seen a lot of improvement in. |
He's an outstanding football player on tape, number one. And he just helped himself today with all his numbers. A 39-inch vertical jump is off the charts for a big guy, and his bench press was phenomenal with those long arms. And he's a young player. So I think the upside on him is tremendous. |
He's done it. He's been there. He's gotten his skins as far as running the ball in this league. |
He's explosive, he's not the biggest guy in the world, but he gives everything he's got and he's got the skills, speed and fitness to do those things. He's a bright-eyed guy that comes to work every day with the same enthusiasm, and I always appreciated him for that. |
He's going through his rehab, and all of those things have been good. Now, it's just a matter of time when we get him out there and start banging him around. |
He's got a lot of passion, |
He's got competitive greatness. That's what separates guys. That's what drives him, I think that's the key to him. I think he's just a very, very strong-willed competitor. |
He's got that mind-set pretty good in big spots. We needed him to be big today, and he was. |
He's had this before (with the Atlanta Falcons), and we just want to get to the bottom of it. |
He's no stranger to us and he's no stranger to our opponents. He's a guy who played a lot for us a year ago. He's a guy who has respect and confidence from his team, his teammates and me. He's a guy we feel comfortable with. |
He's obviously down. He worked very hard to get himself and ourselves to this position, and I think like most guys he's disappointed. He's a strong kid and he seems to be in a little better spirits today. |
He's played very well for us in these first two games, and we look for him to continue to do that. |
Hopefully by now these guys understand you're never as good as they say you are and you're never as bad as they say you are. We get an opportunity to define that every week. I think I'd rather be on the cover at the end of the season rather than at the beginning. |
Hopefully, we won't draw too much from it, because that was a 24-14 loss, ... Hopefully, it's something that we've learned from. Last year was our first opportunity in quite some time. Hopefully, we'll learn from that and understand what's at stake there. The whole world is watching. There's no question all of your peers are watching. It's something that guys should gear up for, and I think we'll learn from that experience last year. |
I believe it sends a clear message to these sexual predators that if they target children, we will target them. |