We've knocked down another one of those walls. |
What? We can go 6-10 and make the playoffs? ... Did we move to the NFC West? |
When picking fourth, you know from day one he?s going to be a starter. Drafting later, that guy might not jump off the board 100 percent of the time. |
When you recruit in college, you do those things. Those are the things you think about. How you drive a guy around the city? What routes do you take? Where do you take him to show him? Do you involve the wife? Who's important to him? Who's going to help him make the decision? Those are all the things we talked about and were important for us to do, as we brought these guys to town. And I think that's helped us acquire the guys we have. |
Where was everybody last week? They weren't here. There's no reason for anybody extra to be here this week. Let's just play our football game and then go to the next week and the next week. At some point, you deserve to have attention. But, right now, we haven't earned anything. |
Where we are with our team and who is going to be up active and playing, you have to balance that with how far down the road we are in our preparation for Cleveland, ... That's probably the hardest thing. Is that player going to be up and active compared somebody else? I'm happy with where we are with our football team. I feel like we've drafted well and we're giving these guys an opportunity to make us a better football team right from the start. The more they play, the better they play. And it's fun to see them get an opportunity to play. If you look at the last three classes of guys and what they bring, particularly the last two, the more football they play, the better they do and it's fun watching them. |
Who Dey? Bill didn't mean anything by it, and I didn't take any offense to it. |
Why would I want our game in Pittsburgh to be there on a Thursday night to open the season? (It favors the home team), particularly coming off a world-championship season. |
Will he or won't he? |
Will he or won't he? We'll give him a chance to rest this week and through the bye, and we'll try to get him back for Baltimore. |
Wow. After 17 weeks! Man! Don't put Marvin Lewis in that decision. Good decision by Chad. He wants to focus on the week, and that's good. |
Yes, we did tackle a little bit better. Tackling is about attitude. You use your hips to finish and grab cloth and get the guy to the ground. |
You can't purposely go out and hurt somebody. I've never seen that happen in the NFL. So I don't think there needs to be any resentment. |
You guys have beat them in a frenzy. They think they're pretty good. We've been there before. We're never as good as everybody thinks we are, or as bad. |
You have to make a lot of plays to overcome a lot of turnovers, and it probably doesn't happen very often in the NFL, which is why that turnover ratio seems to be so significant. When you're on the plus side, No. 1 you're getting yourself off the field defensively, limiting your exposure to bad things happening to you. And you give your offense more opportunities to make bad things happening to the opposing team. You want to play defense on the sidelines. That's the best way to play defense. |