Matt Bowen Quotes (9 Quotes)

We passed well and served well. In practice we serve 50 times and if you make two mistakes in a row you have to run. Pretty much everything went well.

The Redskins defense's first unit played without several starters, and the opening lineup included cornerbacks Rufus Brown and Ade Jimoh. Starting cornerback Shawn Springs pulled his hamstring during early drills and was kept out as a precautionary measure. And defensive end Renaldo Wynn didn't play because of the death of his father-in-law Friday night. The defense showed its familiar tenacity with obscure players, but the secondary allowed some long passing plays. We missed too many tackles and gave up too many big plays, ... It will be a good teaching film.

The thing that you have to understand about 'Hoop' is that he's a basketball junkie. He needs his basketball fix and that's what he does his hard work for. He's fun to be around.

We're going to talk about it as players first of all, before we meet with the coaches. That's not the way we play defense. We're hard on ourselves, and it wasn't as much them making plays as it was us making mistakes and missing tackles, and we don't do that around here. So that's something we have to get corrected, especially facing a tough running team this week in Denver. We don't do that stuff.

We're exploring other hits. They have to learn that every ball can't be a spike, they have to use different arm angles.

All the boys said at the end of the game 'Lucky it was Clint Newton'. He had a bit of speed, but lucky it wasn't the other pretty boys or it would make it a tough chase for us.

If you work hard for Gregg, he's going to put you in position to make plays. I think everyone likes the way he coaches. He doesn't have favorites. He doesn't play favorites. We have a defensive team, and he expects guys to work hard and make plays. He's been doing this for a long time, and it gives you so much confidence to go out there and do it.

It was great just to come down to the Deadlys, and to walk away with two awards is a bonus.

It was just one of those top-of-my head things that come to me now and then.