You pick your poison. You either give up the deep ball to Santana and (Chris) Cooley or let me grind it out. |
You're used to doing one thing, and you turn around and turn into a grinder -- 3 yards a carry. |
You've got enough guys who are sick of losing who know what it takes. It don't take a pep talk or a rah-rah (speech) or bringing somebody in from the dead to get us hyped. ... We've just got to go out and play football. |
You´ve got enough guys who are sick of losing who know what it takes, ... It don´t take a pep talk or a rah-rah (speech) or bringing somebody in from the dead to get us hyped. ... We´ve just got to go out and play football. |
[Another game; another turnover misadventure (or three).] It's been the same story we've been singing all year long, ... Turnovers and penalties. Turnovers and penalties. Nothing's changed. |
[But Portis is still the same guy who says exactly what he feels -- offering blunt critiques of the offense on more than one occasion; defending friend and beleaguered teammate Sean Taylor throughout his troubled offseason -- and accepts the consequences.] I don't mean anybody no harm, ... I'm just going to speak my mind, good or bad. |
[But the No. 1 topic for discussion is and should be: Have the Redskins fixed the offense? That's where we start, updating the offense by, oh, 18 or 19 years.] A year ago, ... we found out it didn't work. |
[I was thinking it's] off to the races, ... Any time you're one-on-one with the safety, it's off to the races. You let the safety tackle you in the open field and you're killing your average. When you get the luxury of going one-on-one with the safety, you got to beat him. |
[Quarterback position is] an easy thing to deal with. We've played with Pat, we know Pat, and he can get the job done. He takes plenty of reps in practice. With Pat back there, we're still going to go out there and execute our game plan. It'll be the same thing. We won't change anything. |