When we looked at our team, the one thing we felt we lacked was veteran leadership and consistency as far as playmakers on defense, |
When you play like a team that's starting to believe what everyone is saying about you -- that's what you get. |
When you're trying to win a playoff-caliber football game, you need to have all three parts play at that level. Not only the level of play-making ability, but also the level of poise and the level of intelligence or smartness. |
Whether they fired me after the game or the next day didn't matter, but it could have been done a little bit better. My son (Nathan) was in the locker room, and they handed him a press release saying his dad had just gotten fired. That was a little tough on (the family). It wasn't tough on me, but I felt for my family. |
Will we replace his plays with a single person? We will not. I don't think you can try to have a player do it. Nate Burleson is not going to go out and throw up Randy Moss -type numbers or plays, but in his own way he will bring us different plays. |
Win. [And] score 19 points. |
Winning on the road is a mindset and a confidence thing. Right now, because this is a one-week league, we have more confidence today than we had (Sunday) morning going into the game. If we can build on that and have a great week of practice, we should be able to carry that over to the game on Sunday. |
With all the young guys, D'Wayne was falling on the depth chart. It was not fair to keep him and then possibly cut him down the line. |
Yeah, Matt Birk and some guys gave it to me, |
Yep, that's right. That's why I memorized them all. |
Yes, I think it's a good thing. If what we think about the heat is true, we're very on top of it. ... Certainly we want to make sure that we monitor it every step of the way. |
Yes, I would. Not this week. |
Yesterday was the best practice that Jimmy had. He caught more balls yesterday than he had at any point since he's been injured. So that's exciting to see. |
You can build on the good taste you leave in your mouth when you finish the thing the right way. |
You can't add all these new pieces and expect it to jell on day one. |