It didn't throw us off. We've seen plenty of quarterbacks just like him. |
It's frustrating that the result of it is what it is. You've got to play better than that. The situation is the season's over, done, finished. Look forward to next year. |
It's great to have him back out there moving around and doing things. Hopefully, he can continue to progress. It's great to have him on the practice field. To have him on the game field would be even better. |
It's not Rodney lining up out there and making plays by himself. Everybody has to come together and everybody has to be in position to make play when they have the opportunity. |
Last week we were sort of embarrassed at what [San Diego] was able to accomplish, and I think guys stepped up and tried to play more physical, more aggressive. Collectively, everybody did a better job at their roles. |
Lucky we're in the bye week, ... because if we continue to play like that, we'd be 3-4 next week. It's ridiculous to go out there and play like that. |
Once you stop the run you get teams in third-and-long, you can tee off because you know the quarterback is going to be back there. |
People tend to talk about the 3-4 and 4-3 like it's two totally different entities, and it's not, ... A defense is a defense, no matter if this guy has that gap and that guy has this gap. Somebody's an end, and somebody's a linebacker, regardless who you put in there. I'll be dropping and rushing, whether we're in a 3-4 defense or a 4-3. That's one thing that factored in my decision to come here. I'm going to get the opportunity to rush the passer, because that's what I love to do. |
Regardless of who's on the field, the guys are required to perform at a high level. So, regardless if it's Richard or if it's a rookie, you're expected to get the job done. |
Regardless, if we said it 10 times a 1,000 times, if Rodney's out there or if Rodney's not out there, whoever's out there -- 11 guys -- we play team defense, |
The best thing that we can do for ourselves is take care of Miami and then move on to whatever's after that. |
The bottom line is, we are not doing the things we need to do. People aren't making their tackles, staying in their gaps. Now, we have two weeks to start playing football the way we know how to. |
The dude's a special player. He's everything you'd want as a player and a teammate. |
The game was sort of how our season went. We played well one part of the game, we'd play bad the next part of the game. |
There's nowhere to go but up from how we performed. This is not how we've performed around here the past couple of years. We've got a tough challenge ahead of us this coming week, we've got to get ready, and we've got to get better. |