Anytime you have your starting quarterback taken away from you with a potential knee injury, you are just very concerned, |
As a football player, Woodson is such a unique guy. He can stand in there and play man-to-man, old-school bump-and-run coverage with the best of them, and he will knock you out. |
As a runner he has incredible vision, tremendous stamina. He has great competitiveness, and he can run with power. In my years of coaching, he is certainly the best ball-carry back I have been around. |
As I said, I talked to Anthony on Saturday. We've been in constant contact with him throughout the organization and my understanding is he'll be back here Thursday morning. His status for the game obviously is doubtful. It's been a very tough ordeal for him, and we just have to support him every way we can. |
As long as Carnell feels good, he's going, ... He's the front-running back here and, no offense to anyone else, he's a guy that we are going to feature. |
As long as he can take it, we will continue to give him these opportunities, ... If the situation has us with the lead, we're in the fourth quarter, and the clock is our enemy, you are going to see more Cadillac Williams, yes. |
As you say, the salary cap is a problem. If we wanted to get Corey Simon, we couldn't have made that happen, maybe because of the salary cap. It's not like we weren't looking at every good player that we foresee being available. But we have to be honest and realistic with what we can get done given our salary cap. |
At least we weren't the only idiots. |
Brian Griese took a big step last year, completing 69.3 percent of his passes, |
But he's as tough as they get. The look in his eye is going to give our offense a chance every Sunday. |
But in some ways, this is a real positive for our football team, for us to be tested in this way. We physically got beaten by a quality football team (Carolina). You can dwell on the negatives or you can do something about it and roll your fist up and play a hell of a lot better. |
But we like Ryan Nece. Jeff Gooch and Ryan have had a real competitive battle this spring and summer, so Ryan will be the starter. He's earned that in Jeff's absence. |
But, man, there's plenty of kinds of ice cream, you know. So do what you do and just find some you like. |
Cadillac Williams is off to a very good start, ... He is what he is. He is a durable guy that can run inside or out. He is a guy if he can break through there, he can get going pretty good. So, yes, he did what we hoped he would do. |
Carnell just isn't ready to go. He will remain questionable until we see how he progresses. |