Is that the reason? I don't know. I can't tell you. We went over there, guys made plays and we won the game when we did win. |
It bothers me that the retirement talk is a constant theme. I told him, 'You should be offended when people talk retirement because physically you're certainly not there.' And I believe that. |
It does change things in regard to your preparation. In our walkthrough (Wednesday), we practiced against that quite a bit based on what we saw in the game against Chicago. And we'll continue to work against it. |
It doesn't surprise me that he came out here today and played the way he played. I knew he would do that. |
It seemed like we were always stuck with a long field. As you move back in zones, the odds of scoring get worse and worse. But that was our own doing. |
It was his ACL, |
It was just a matter of time. |
It was tough to watch any part of that game. We didn't execute in any phase. |
It was very scary. It looks like he's going to be OK. |
It's a significant injury. This one is significant enough to keep him out the rest of the season. |
It's a very significant game, |
It's been addressed. If (Little) has a problem with any situation, he needs to come and talk to me about it. Our coaches evaluate every practice, every game. We don't (air gripes) that way. We haven't done it in the past; we're not going to do it now. So, I don't anticipate that to happen again. |
It's just a matter of him getting used to what we're doing. I'm not sure we're there quite yet. I'm going to talk with the defensive coaches in my meeting this afternoon with them and just see where we feel he is. He's a guy that hasn't really gone through preseason and has not been in the scheme per se, as a player physically worked into the scheme. So, obviously, we have a little concern there. |
It's just rest. There's not a lot you can do about it. It's just time, ... And we've dealt with these before with (Robert) Ferguson and also with (Donald) Driver and it takes a while to get back from something like this, and that also affected our decision. |
It's not like there's options. The options are decided in the offseason and in the draft and in the preseason and so forth. Now, we have our team set, and we have to be able to fix it from within, coaches and players alike. I firmly believe we can do it. (But) I'm not going to say it's easy. |