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. |
I'm always going to come off the field feeling like if we don't do well running the ball that it's my fault. That's just it. The team trusts me with the ball in my hands and to go out and make plays, and it's my job to go out there and make plays. |
I've learned that it's one thing for a young player to have somebody like that in front of him. It's another thing for you to have the maturity to sit back and actually learn and not be selfish. I had it right away, because I understood my situation. |
If we get that touchdown, we win the game. |
In order to win in the NFL, you have to be able to run the ball, ... I think it's very obvious that we can pretty much throw the ball against everybody we play. It's just up to us now (to get) our run game going. |
In that locker room, if you were in there, you got a sense of how the team was hurt. You get a sense that we are not giving up, and that's something big. I think that is something the fans really need to know ? that we might have lost this game and things aren't looking too bright for us right now, but we're not giving up and that's just pretty much the mind-set of the team right now. |
It lets you know about the character of your football team, |
It's a role I've been waiting for four years. |
It's at the point now where if I walk away from the game and I don't have 20 carries, I can't really feel an embarrassment like I did against Philly, ... I know the more I get the ball, the better that I do. |
It's at the point now where if I walk away from the game and I don't have 20 carries, I can't really feel an embarrassment like I did against Philly. I know the more I get the ball, the better that I do. |
It's the best I've felt after a game, that's for sure. It's a good feeling getting a victory. I'm nowhere near as beat up as I was last week, and I feel pretty good that I can walk off the field and leave the stadium with a smile on my face. |
Let's just call it what it is: We came out flat. We're not going to the playoffs. It's the first time all year I can say that. |
Like I say every week when we lose, we move the ball up and down the field on teams, but we just can't finish the drives because we end up beating ourselves. |
My contract doesn't say I'm that kind of runner, |
One magazine had me finishing with 975 yards, |