I always felt we needed to play more in games and even in practice. As a veteran, I also realize you want to go into the season healthy. That's why I'm glad it's the coach's job.
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I had a choice to come back to the Lions, at least I felt like I did. It was a good contract. It wasn't exactly the contract we wanted. It was on the table for four or five days. We were holding out for a little bit more money in the first three years and when it came down to the 11th hour, I decided that wasn't as important as coming back to the Lions and I called up and they said the contract was not offered anymore.Jeff Hartings
It's worked out all right. They were going to basically clean house, and I didn't know at the time if I wanted to be involved with something like that, especially when we were not very far away from becoming very competitive.
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Practice -- quite frankly, I think he loses interest a lot of times, not unlike a lot of us players. But come game day -- I was talking to Hines the other day and I said, you know, he'll be ready, and he was. He moved around, I didn't see any effect of the knee.
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Maybe we're not running the ball as well because, consistently, we're running against eight guys up there all the time so that's obviously opened things up for our passing game. On game day, we'll see what happens. Do they want to stop the pass and see if we can run the ball to win Or do they want to stop the run first and make us pass to win We'll have to do whatever they give us.
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I think he came into that first game a little scared, and he maybe tried to do too much, too soon. But I felt all along that Ben, deep down, wanted to be the starter. That's the kind of competitor he is. This year, he wants to be the guy to make plays to help us win games. Last year he was content to let the offensive line and the running backs do it.
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