Sometimes that's hard for offensive people to suck up their pride. But we needed to do that. |
That doesn't happen a lot. It still doesn't happen a lot in the middle of the season. |
That position is a ways away from defining itself and will probably be one of the most competitive in (fall) camp. |
The eruption of the crowd was a sound I'll never forget as a player or coach. |
The offense put it on the ground twice and we can't have that, but the defense did a great job of scooping and scoring when they did, which is big for us. That's something we've emphasized in practice every day. |
There could be some possibilities, but (potential candidates) are really fighting for other positions right now. Those kinds of things will get ironed out more in the fall than they will in the spring. |
This staff is used to facing tough schedules. The challenges are great, but I knew that when I took this job. There are no surprises. It's a tough schedule, but that's just the way it is. |
Time stood still, so to speak, |
Two good coaching staffs, two great football teams. I think this will be great for America. |
We all worked hard in camp, but when you get in games, it's a little different. We're not going to beat our guys up. We were all part of this deal. We'll watch tape tomorrow (Sunday) and see what happens. The big thing we told the guys was they had to stay together ... we're just going to roll our sleeves up and work. We have some growing pains right now. |
We do not want to be a finesse offense. We (concentrated on the run game) because we had a certain goal and that goal was to establish a physical presence to carry us through the whole year, and it started (last) Saturday. |
We ended up in third and long too much. We need to do a better job of that, and that starts with me. |
We felt good about him being in there. He's in command. He's good on the sideline. We wanted to keep that rhythm going if we could. |
We felt like he didn't get enough snaps in the game, ... We want to give him a chance to play and play through some mistakes. |
We got 29 practices in August, ... and we needed more. |