The thing I focus on just before the snap is the inside half of the guy across from me. Coaches call it having 'big eyes.' You keep those big eyes focused on his inside number, the number that's right across from you, because that's the part of him that tells you where he's going to go. Whether he's going to make a move outside or try to bull-rush you. |
These guys have been successful for years. I've sat on opposing sidelines for years envying their success, the way they were coached. Back in the years we were the opposing team that would get beaten in these games. I came out years ago and said I was mad that we weren't progressing. |
They tore up his deal. I would have taken value at that time. I hoped they would have let me ride into the sunset as a Bengal, like Jonathan Ogden as a Raven. |
They tried to stretch me on the sideline but it kept getting worse and worse to the point that I couldn't move left or right. I couldn't bend down into a stance. I should have come out of the game but being stupid and stubborn. I gave up a sack being stubborn. |
Today we ran from opportunities. |
Usually the great pass rushers have another guy on the other side to push them back to you for an easy sack, ... Justin's never had that other guy. |
We all knew we needed coaching. We had a bad reputation of being an undisciplined team. We wanted direction. We wanted leadership. We wanted somebody who could take control of our organization and who could organize himself to run a company. That's what Marvin was doing. |
We have to win. We have to go up there not sugarcoating this thing. |
We haven't done anything yet. We're judged at the end of the year, whether or not you're in the playoffs playing in the cold weather, or at home watching TV. That's how we're judged. |
We will continue to do our jobs regardless of complaints, ... We are servants and will continue to do that. |
We're pushing this week like it's a regular week. We haven't been told by the coaches that we weren't playing a whole lot. We're told that we're playing the whole game, and we all want to play the whole game. |
We're tired, but we always know that they're three times more tired than we are because they're chasing the football. It speeds the game up. |
We're told that we're playing the whole game and be ready to go in for a dogfight. |
We've got to be fair to everyone else,'' said Lewis, who can't afford to lose any part of his locker room over promoting Palmer. |
We've had quarterbacks here in the past who had no idea what they were doing and, you know what -- we'd get our heads kicked in. |