Let's talk about Chicago. It's Friday. It's been a long week, very emotionally drained. I hope you can appreciate that. |
Look, when you go to some stadiums, it's so deafening that you can't hear. When you have 15,000-20,000 of the opponent's fans in there, it's not deafening. There is a difference. The fans that were there were great. But it wasn't like a big game when it's just your guys in there. |
Marcus is our guy. But young players tend to compound their mistakes with another mistake right after it. So we just take him out, settle him down and put him back in. |
Marcus Johnson is our guy. We all have to understand, as coaches, ownership, personnel department, fans, media is that when we put a young guy in there he is going to have some moments where he struggles. |
Marcus was at the top of our list of receivers in free agency, and the only one we targeted as someone we wanted. To get a guy who has played at such a high level in this league is exciting. We haven't had a player of this caliber on the other side of Randy [Moss] since Cris. |
Maybe, in their defense, they sold the tickets when ... we were 2-5. Maybe they said, 'The heck with it. I'm not going to that.' Maybe that's the case. Or maybe Pittsburgh fans are just a little more diehard than our fans. |
Mike will have an MRI performed today at 2:30 and will be evaluated on a day-to-day basis, ... Going by past history he will be ready to perform. |
Mike's got to earn his way back into the fold. ... At this point right now I don't have any inclination to start him. |
My wife is going to go back and forth for the first year... so it's going to be a tough go for us. This will be a challenge for our family, but we'll battle our way through it. |
No, he didn't get pushed back. I think he just turned around and made the tackle, our center did. I don't think we played any type of winning football offensively, especially in the second half. |
No. No. No. No. When you have eight tackles for losses against you, I don't see that as being a sign that you're one of the better teams in the league. |
Obviously our job is to get ready to win football games and any time you have something like these allegations occur, it doesn't make it any simpler. And quite frankly, I'm not happy. . . . I fashion these young men as an extension of my family. So as a father and a family man, you can sense probably how I feel. |
Obviously we miss his energy and the plays that he brings to the table, but this is a different football team. Life goes on after the great player leaves. We have other players on our team that can bring us, collectively, a bunch of offense but nobody that can bring us the plays Randy Moss brought us. |
Of course I'm hurt. I'm a man, not a machine. I put a lot of time into this organization, and had a lot of good times, and some bad times. |
Of course it did, I'm a human being, a man. I've been here since '92 ... I've poured a lot of energy into this program. |