Diggs had three practices in six weeks, and I just didn't feel confident to put him on the field. Not so much from a mental standpoint as much from a physical standpoint that he wasn't ready to play football. |
Do you think I worry about that? Are you crazy? I worry about the approval rating of my family. |
Even though he doesn't carry the ball very much we do ball drills with him every day, |
Everybody's competing and working for the job. We're going to go through this week, and we have a game coming up to make further evaluations. |
Everything we do philosophically stems from the run game, whether it's the play-pass, the play-action, the movements - they all go hand-in-hand with a viable run game, |
Finally, he told me he was having some pains in his upper chest, shoulder area, pains very similar to the ones I was aware of the last time, ... They ran tests, and they're going to run some more tests on him tomorrow. I believe he'll be OK. |
Flanagan has what they call a muscle hernia. Probably won't have a chance to play this weekend. He's seeing a doctor in Philadelphia today. |
For a guy who's been in the league for 15 years, I think your character has to come into play as a player, |
For him to want to stay at the game over going to the doctor's was ludicrous, ... But, he wanted to be at the game and be a part of it so much. |
Fortunately, it's not out of reach. But at the same time we just have to win the next ballgame. |
Friday was the day we really tested him and worked him hard. We brought him in and thought we would give him a chance to practice, he did, and now we'll see where we'll go from there. This doesn't mean he'll play Monday night. |
Grossman did a fine job tonight. He made some throws that maybe we didn't see the last time we played them. |
Hannibal Navies has done a good job for us in the past, ... He's a good linebacker, and he's more suited for maybe an 'under' defense more so than our 'over' defense right now. (You) can't find a better kid than Hannibal Navies. He's done a lot for us. |
has 99 percent of all the feeling back. He has a little tingling in one of his shoulders. But he's got most of everything, his faculties back where they need to be. It's just when you watch him walk, he's very stiff and not very mobile and understandably so. |
He always wants to do as much as he possibly can. I don't think that's (a bad thing). When he plays well, he tries to do as much as he possibly can. Today is no different. I don't think his mentality changed necessarily. That's who he is. He's going to do as much as he possibly can to help us win. It wasn't enough today. |