We have played to earn respect, and the way you earn respect is by going out and winning the next game you play. That approach has helped us get here. I don't know too much about Pittsburgh and what their year has been like. Let's just go out and take care of business. It sounds like that is the sort of formula that has helped them get here, too. |
We haven't been parading around town doing all kinds of things. We're here for one thing and that's to play football. We're not here to do all this other stuff. |
We just didn't execute to the best of our abilities. That's why (Pittsburgh) is the Super Bowl champion, and we're not. |
We just didn't execute to the best of our ability today. We were close a couple of times, but close doesn't get it done. |
We just didn't play well enough. It's disappointing. It's hard. But what can you do? They played really hard on defense and we didn't execute to the best of our ability. We were close a couple times, but close doesn't cut it. |
We just had opportunities to score touchdowns, but we didn't score touchdowns. We were moving the ball fine, rhythm, time of possession, first downs, yards...we just couldn't score touchdowns. |
We just weren't that good. The product on the field wasn't very good, and that is a frustrating thing. |
We knew that he would fit nicely in our offense, |
We know what needs to happen to get it done. We'll see you in September. |
We know you guys are new, we don't care, and we're not going to get ultra-conservative. We believe in you guys and we're going to let you make plays. |
We played really, really well at times, ... It's just that we turned the ball over too many times. |
We raise that flag before the game, and some people might not understand it. It's something I didn't understand at first. But it means something to people. It means something to our team, it means something to our coaches, it means something to the people in the city. I mean, the thing's hanging from the top of the Space Needle right now. |
We thought that maybe we would struggle a little bit more than we did, ... But those guys played great. |
We understand that this is Jerome Bettis' hometown and that he's going to get a lot of the attention. He's a classy guy who's had a great career. You can see why it's kind of hard for us to compete against that for attention. |
We went 8-0. We were the team that never punted. You can go back and see the trophy. It's printed on there. |