When a guy comes in late to camp, he quadruples the chance for injury because he has to catch up. |
When he's allowed to show up here, we'll go forward. I'm not completely 100 percent certain when that is right now. God and the U.S. government only know. |
When he's allowed to show up here, we'll go forward. I'm not completely 100% certain when that is right now. God and the U.S. government only know. |
When you look across the board at every measurement you have, he's the complete package. He's got size [6-foot-3, 230 pounds], intelligence, great arm strength, great character, but he's just scratching the surface of where he can go. |
When you're 0-2, your whole world has to be about getting that first win and stopping that slide. A two-game losing streak to start the season, it can't get to that third game. That's a tough nut to crack if it does. |
When you're a 2-4 football team, you go back to work and you work your way through. That's what's left of this team right now, ... What the rest of the year holds for us, we'll find out and we'll see what that means. This team will stay together, it will work and it will try to isolate the way that we can get better. That's the only approach I know how to take at this point. |
When you're starting out as a rookie coach with those two, my plea was, 'Act like you're learning something, OK, so I can keep my job.' They had something like 35 years experience. I would say, 'Tell me what you want to do and act like it was my idea.' They were great that way. You knew Mike would be a great coach. |
Whether it's opportunity, whether it's maturity on their part, all of a sudden they hit it. Some never do. It's just one of those positions that's very unique. |
Winning on the road is pivotal to success in the NFL, and that's something we have to address. |
With Young, you knew we were going to beat him up. He was just too good to be true. The problem that I see, personally, is I don't know who you compare him to. I think that makes people uncomfortable. |
You act like a man, I'll treat you like a man. |
You always follow the money and follow the wins. |
You can only imagine, if you can put yourself in that circumstance, carrying around in the back of your mind the consequences of where Jamal found himself. Now that that is totally behind him, it would only make sense that Jamal's mind is truly free to be focused on his job. |
You can't make mistakes like that in the first half. I'm happy with how he responded, and we grew. He grew individually, and we grew as a team. |
You could spend the entire offseason preparing for what New Orleans does to this point, ... But if they're a zone team, they could decide, you know what, we're going to blitz every down. In preseason, it's really about you and what you're trying to do than what's the opponent doing. |