Last year was a mountain climb -- we were fortunate to be able to plant the flag at the top of the mountain and win the national championship, ... This year, we have won zero games. We are at base camp at the bottom of the mountain looking up at the climb. And it will be very difficult. |
Managing the game is the most important thing. Gus has done a pretty good job of that. Turnovers are not killing us. We won the turnover battle in the games that we won and we didn't in the one that we lost. |
Maybe this guy (Denney) won't mess up twice in a year after he's done it in 10 years, ... But if we were to cut this guy, he would have gotten claimed. And if you watch him snap you would feel the same way. We're not going to second-guess anything that we did. |
Maybe this guy (Denney) won't mess up twice in a year after he's done it in 10 years. But if we were to cut this guy, he would have gotten claimed. And if you watch him snap you would feel the same way. We're not going to second-guess anything that we did. |
Maybe we can create some problems and issues for teams by doing that. |
My biggest concern is how many players do we have that can go in and play (winning) football, |
My biggest concern was how the members of our team would respond and react to Ricky coming back. And I think everybody had the idea that if he was committed to coming back and wanted to be a player that would contribute to the success of the team, that they would be all for it. |
My focus is on trying to get our players in the best position we can to have an opportunity to be successful. The other stuff is pretty minor. |
My last conversation was awhile back and was really about our heritage, trying to figure out where we came from and what we did, |
My only feeling is that the situation and the circumstance that created this whole thing is unfortunate for a lot of people. I think that it is unfortunate for the Saints that they have to go through a lot of changes to do what they have to do, but probably, more importantly, the fans and all of the people affected by this tragedy. |
No, but I think that it's going to be up to the team not to allow it to be [a circus] and to focus on what we need to focus on as a team to be successful. It only matters if we let it matter. |
Nobody ever said this team wasn't tough. Look at that, it took two teams to eliminate us from the playoffs. |
Nobody has a crystal ball. Nobody can make a prediction. But based on history, the guy is making good progress to come back. ... And as you see his progress being made, it doesn't become a leap of faith to determine whether the guy can come back. |
Nobody in this room, with all of our power and might put together, can have anything to do with where it goes. What we can try to do is have something to do with preparing for the game and doing our job well and having pride in the performance of what we have to do. |
Nobody wishes that anybody has to go through what one of our colleagues is having to go through right now relative to his loss in this holiday season. |