You're out there on an island all by yourself. All eyes are on you. Everything is magnified. All mistakes are seen. It's you. It's the position now, the position to play. |
You've got to have a big swagger, man. You've got to have a lot of confidence to do things that not a lot of people do — like myself, T.O., Moss. When you've got that confidence and swagger you're able to do it. |
[Just one player, though, is prone to dial in the middle of the night.] I don't think there's a player in the NFL who's as close as I am with their coaches, ... And (there's) no time to sleep when we've got games to play. |
[Palmer's teammates view him the same way.] They call him the golden boy, ... Just watch him work. |
[The Bengals consider this game critical because they've started 1-4 in Marvin Lewis' first two seasons and want to get beyond .500.] Our whole key to our success is the first five games, ... The first five games will tell us whether we're going to the postseason or not. |