When you have a young man with this kind of talent, you're talking about all the second-and-long, third-and-long situations that are presented in our game. |
When you play the Carolina team, you have to take some calculated risks. In other words, you have to 'spend' two people on Steve Smith, and we did. In so doing, we had basically a seven-man front. But they were able to run the ball against a seven-man front. |
When you see him make those kinds of decisions, the ball comes out with plenty of distance. |
Why was [Webster] in there? We substituted him. I told you he was going to have opportunities to play. We'd like to get him in there with the [first team] some and he did play regularly in the dime package. |
Will Allen is the starting corner, OK!, ... This press conference has gone on about five minutes too long. |
With all the facts that the medical people have, there is still a lot of guesswork as to exactly when (Pierce may return). We needed to do some things to put ourselves in a position where we had some depth for this game. |
With as much pressure as we bring people, we are leaving some holes in the underneath coverage. It's just natural, you can't cover everything. I don't think you can say you are pleased with the amount of yardage . . . We have got to work on better individual one-on-one coverage. But, what we are pleased with is winning and getting the turnovers and keeping them out of the end zone. |
You can see there's some rust out there. |
You can't sit there with four years of dead money. You can't put your team in salary cap jail. It just doesn't work. It's an unfortunate part of our business, but it's a harsh reality. |
You had a running back trying to enter the hole from the wrong side, |
You have to put two people on Steve Smith. We did and in doing so, we have basically a seven-man front. They were able to run the ball against a seven-man front. |
You know what? ... I was consumed with trying to win the game. It's unfortunate, but you have to remember our passing game wasn't very good. |
You need to know where he is. |
You thrive on the game, on the players, on the opportunity, on the circumstances, on the situations. |
You're at home, you are in a comfortable surrounding, you have your fans, and you have the ability to control the noise much better, ... Noise is a factor. |