By that time, I turn around and they're all next to me on the sidelines. I wasn't talking to anybody upstairs. |
Carolina offered him just a phenomenal financial package, and he was gone. Ken had developed his skills. We drafted him, we liked him, he had gotten better and better and better, and now he's playing at a certain level. That was a good signing by Carolina. |
Chris is very steady. He's had a fine year. He gets overlooked. They tease him about it. I tease him about it. |
Clearly, you can't turn the ball over on special teams. |
Coaches are bad patients -- and Ray may be the worst. |
Coaching a football game is really not that important compared to getting well, ... He must be smart about this. It's very hard for him to back off, but he must right now. |
Darrell had to go for a second opinion, so he's in Florida. And Bobby, he was getting treatment today and he can't move very well. |
Darrell has great ability and I think he came in, not with a chip on his shoulder, but with something to prove. He came into the league wanting to gain more attention than he did in college and he worked very, very hard to do that. I think in his case, that's what has happened. |
Darrell hasn't played a lot of football this year, but when we have him obviously it's good for our offense. He's a good football player, and we're a better team when he's playing. |
Darrell made a beautiful, beautiful adjustment. That was just a great play by our receiver. |
Darrell really has tremendous quickness and he's faster than people give him credit for. He's a tough guy to jam at the line of scrimmage. He makes things happen. He makes a lot of things happen in the first five yards and gains an advantage there. And then he has caught the ball very, very well t his season. |
Darrell was very much ready to play this football game. He came up big today. |
Did I feel we needed it? No more than normal, that part of it. Did I want it? Yes. All the things that were talked about and any number of things this season, I joked about it, but it was true. I'm human just like anyone else. |
During the season, if there are special players or players we think are key to the other team's defense or offense, we will designate that guy with a red jersey so everyone is aware of where he is. I think you have to do that with great players. |
Every once in a while you get a player in that is so grounded, so solid a kid, that the football is just an extension of how he does stuff in his life, |