Our mindset all week has been to get back to how we play, ... A lot has been said about how we play. That's how we play: We don't beat ourselves . . . . Pretty doesn't win it. We found a way to win, and that's what matters . . . . It's our mindset, and we can't lose sight of that. Somewhere, somehow, we lost sight of that last week. We did things we generally don't do in that game last week. We played a lot better this week. |
Our mindset was to get him in the game to kick field goals and he did that, |
Our offense was very, very sluggish. We didn't play well and we didn't play smart. |
Pretty doesn't win, we want to win. |
Quarterbacks get paid to win, ... That's how I evaluate him. It's a bottom-line business. It's about winning. . . . We played in a very tight game. I think that's good for you. It puts anxiety in your gut, and we needed that. |
Ray Lewis has done it, been in the Super Bowl, been in some Pro Bowls, so I think Jonathan Vilma kind of looks at him as a former Miami player and understands he has some attributes like Ray. Now it's just a matter of him playing to that level. As he progresses and becomes better, he has that potential. |
Some people get enamored with a person's lifestyle, |
Take the ball and go score a TD. |
That is what a playoff team looks like. There is a reason they go to the playoffs every year and have won three world championships. They got off to a fast start. |
That isn't in the coaching book, OK? |
That was something that might not have been as special to him as it was to all of us, he's not that kind of guy. He's about the team, that's what makes him so unique. |
That was the key for me after they scored, to see how our players would react, ... That was a heck of a drive to go down and score. It took the momentum away from them and put it back on our side. |
That's something you have to sit down and talk to Terry and Mike and Mr. Johnson and everybody else that's involved in all of those decisions and figure out which way we're headed. |
That's what they ruled, ... We still had chances to win the game after that. |
That's what we wanted, we wanted the shotgun. That's great, as long as it doesn't go on the ground. It went on the ground today. |