People have learned that you must run versus that defense. |
People on the East Coast think we're from Siberia. |
Peter has come in and worked very hard and should have a chance to show what he could do. I thought he made a couple of really nice plays tonight. |
Peter, he so much wanted to make a play -- he really did -- he lost sight of the fact of where he was. |
Pittsburgh gives you some special problems, I think. It gives us one more day to kind of work out the kinks on some stuff we think we're going to see. |
Players and coaches who have gone through the game, that helps. |
Points allowed is the most important thing, (but) I would like us to be able to get a few more three-and-outs if possible, |
Pretty soon a trust develops and you can give them more cookies. You can give them an extra 15 minutes of recess, but until that happens, you just don't. |
Quarterbacks, when they lose guys they're comfortable with, it can play with their minds a little bit. Matt played a very controlled game, for the most part, which is what I wanted him to do in this building. |
Randy was, in my opinion, the best. He really was the best. We played against him so many times; there aren't many guys like him around. |
Ray got sick and John fortunately had been a coordinator so the idea of coordinating a defense was not a new thing for him. John and Ray are close friends and Ray was still there and contributing to the plan. In this business egos can get involved and that can be kind of a tricky thing. To their credit, they made it work. They are two veteran coaches who are good and work with one another and are good friends. I think that contributed to the success they had on defense. |
Really, it's not so much to create something for the defense. It's to create something for our team. I think we are more effective and they tune in better and they go at things better, in my opinion, if our tempo is good. And by that I mean get them in and out of the huddle, let me get the play in properly. |
Really, what I told Mike was — and I put myself in the same category — you get so caught up in this that it, at times, appears to become more than life and death, |
Respect is a term I don't use loosely or lightly. I think because of where we are, where we're located in Seattle, we don't get the TV exposure that other teams get, and a lot of people just don't know what kind of football team we have. And as I've told the team, that's OK because ultimately, you'll be judged by what happens on Sunday. |
Right after the game, I said, 'Hey listen, what did I say?' ... We nearly had a mutiny. |