Quotations

«I can't talk enough about our defense.»

«I certainly haven't talked about anything like that.»

«Obviously he is not in a position where we think he can kick for us right now.»

«Our guys in the fourth quarter are fighting their guts out. I would hope that they'd start the game like that.»

«That was the most congenial conversation I think I've ever had with anybody. What I was saying to him there was, 'I think you can help the football team' - that's when my finger came out. I said, 'Look, you can help this football team. You can rush the punter.' But I was also telling him, 'Now, this is what you need to do in order to do that.»

«We're kind of frustrated right now. We're willing to try anything to solve this.»

«The quarterback situation there, yeah, experience is something they'd probably like to have. But what they have is a high-quality quarterback there.»

«I think he's a courageous guy. We need to get everything else on offense working together. All of us working together, including myself. I think he can make plays to win games for us.»

«Whatever your business is, we all have a drama going on in our own lives. We're all unhappy about something. You have sickness, marital problems, a myriad of things going wrong in everybody's life. You have to deal with those things right away. You have to get their full concentration on football. I'd like to be able to communicate even more with my players when things aren't going bad, but it's just like everything else in life. The problems take over, and you wind up chasing the problems. I'd say handling people is the most important thing you do as a coach. Dealing with people, really, is all football is.»

«The problem with signing our guys right now, almost none of the agents want to sign right now. They are afraid now if they go out and do a deal, they are going to get criticized for it.»