That set the tone. We knew we could play with anybody, anywhere, anytime and be in any game. |
That would be something for him, then. It's like Lent. |
That's a decade and a half worth of futility. Last Sunday, we went back to the basics, employing what we call the 'Viking Sex Boat Offense:' using our Johnson's. And that would be Rudi and Chad Johnson, who are not related, but are soul brothers, nonetheless. |
That's a part of it. There's no question that goes through [our] mind. But you don't go into this thing to fail. If you do the research, the character, the background all the way through ... you've got to feel like you've done the right thing. |
That's important for us to continue development there. We'll continue to always look at wide receivers and players of that type. Every area on defense (could be addressed). We're not going to overlook any area. |
The 2005 season was a great learning experience for our franchise, our team and for me. We've established an evaluation process of free agents and college prospects. All we're going to do is get better and better at this. |
The best thing, the most important thing, was his reaction to that game, |
The clock was there last year and the year before that, so don't take that too far. |
The coaches are doing a good job of coaching him, and he's doing a good job of absorbing it and keeping it going. As long as he does what he's supposed to do, we'll have a chance to be successful on offense. |
The defined role is to get him in the game and get him the football in his hands as much as we can. |
The guy got hurt, forget it, let it go. We don't get it back. We're not going to baby and cry like their quarterback did. It's ridiculous. A guy got hurt. |
The lack of a guy doing his job. |
The other team wants to win just as bad as you do. You have to take it from them. We sat and hung around, but we never knocked them out.You have to stop them and knock them out. We had opportunities to, and we didn't. I give them credit for keeping us from doing that. |
The preparation this week will be as a normal week, but there's a finality to it. That's what we have to understand. We just have to understand the urgency of everything we do, and the importance. I would think, knowing where we are in the season, we ought to have a good understanding of that. Just keep pushing on that. |
The truth is he's been even better than we expected so far, ... Just the other day against the Jets, to move and avoid the rush and it's all getting knocked back into him. He's so big and he's got the presence to move away from it. And then when he runs, he's fast enough that they can't catch him, and he's able to still throw the football. He's learning that he's got to dump the football in the NFL and not make a bad play worse. But he is learning that. |