'I'm not going to judge a guy based on how he's portrayed in the media. I'm going to judge this man based on him.' And Randy ... he's been phenomenal. |
Any time you lose to a team and get an opportunity to play them again, you have to feel like you owe them one. Not taking anything away from those guys, but we just didn't make the plays up there [New England] offensively. Overall as a team, we have a big test next week. My main focus right now is how well we are going to do against the Patriots. |
Are we going to get out of this hole and get back to being the team that people expect us to be? Or are we going to continue to dig deep and come Week 9 or 10, we're making plans for the holidays? I don't plan on doing that. |
As I was walking off the field and looked up at the scoreboard, a fan yelled out, 'Wow ... 21 yards,' |
As I was walking off the field, I looked up at the scoreboard and a fan yelled out, 'Wow, 21 yards!' And I looked and saw we only had 21 yards rushing. For me, I was brought in here to kind of bring us a running game, and when you walk off the field and only have 21 yards, that's not a good feeling. |
For me to be a starting running back in the NFL and somebody says that I could play 16 games, but I won't get 1,000 yards, for me I look at it as a slap in the face. That's one of those slaps where I say, 'OK, you can slap me once. But at the end of the season, I want to make sure I'm hitting you back with a powerful punch.' |
Honestly, I kept telling myself it was something that wouldn't hold Curtis (Martin) out. I think the fact the ground (at the Coliseum) was so soft I could run on the side of my foot. So it was just one of those things. |
I [will] let it get me down because I care, |
I don't think the guy should be looked at as an outcast or be looked at in a negative way because of some personal things that might have happened, |
I have said it before, 23 to 26 carries and I've gotten the job done. And if you look at our record, 1-4, our one victory was 26 for 126. To win games in the NFL you have to run the ball. |
I think it's enough talking now. We've done enough talking. Talking doesn't get you wins. Almost winning does not get you wins. So what we have to do now is step up, be held accountable, realize that we're professional athletes, we have a job to do and we have to go out there and do it. That's what it comes down to. |
I think the media has done a good job portraying him being a bad person, when in reality he's not. |
I was so concerned with trying to make the big run that I didn't nitpick to get the three or four yards. That's something I have to work on. |
I will forever look at it as teams saying we can't run the ball, ... I encourage defenses to play that way. If you play two-deep defense against us with the way we're capable of running the ball ... we are going to run the ball down your throat. I think today was a true test of that. |
I would hate for us to sit here at the end of the year and say we were the most underachieving team in the NFL because if we don't make it to the playoffs, we will be the most underachieving team in the league, ... And quite frankly, it will be an embarrassment. |