Jeff Fisher Quotes (167 Quotes)

If Brett plays, he is known to scramble around and make plays. And his backups are doing the same thing. It will be a good test.

If that is the case, then we'll do everything we can to move him around. But I don't think people are going to look at him as the guy. If they do, then somebody else is going to emerge, and hopefully, somebody else will make plays.

I've seen solid players, impact players. But nobody that has a potential to impact a defense like Williams.

That should fall under the category of unsportsmanlike conduct. Nothing positive to gain from that situation other than push and shove and those kind of things on the field, and I don't understand it. They don't need to explain it to me, but I don't understand it.

I haven't seen a guy like this in years. I've seen impact players but nobody that has the potential to impact a defense like him.

Typically, if a coach is under contract and it's a lateral move, then the permission is denied. But if it's an opportunity to better himself and move from position coach to coordinator, then it's up to the club to decide whether that's really the move that they're describing. If it is, then I feel it's only appropriate to give those coaches an opportunity to help themselves.

Well, we're catching the ball, so that is a start. We've had some difficulties fielding the ball in the past, but we've got confidence now in both (Thurman) and (Roby). So, it starts there.

He's fit in very nicely. The players responded. They're having fun. They look forward to the weekly game plans now and the challenges that each defense presents. They look forward in anticipation to how Coach wants to attack them.

The Colts are doing something a little different than most other teams offensively. I think it's going to take a number of years for defenses to catch up with them. ... You have to take advantage of a sack, of a knocked-down pass, of a holding penalty and get them into third down and get off the field.

There are times on tape where you are looking and you say they have got to be guessing, but they guess right when they guess. You have to be sharp.

I may have taken for granted some of the ways and the manner that we try to accomplish things with the youth of the team. We have ways of doing things that have been successful over the years. I may have put too much faith and confidence in the younger players' ability to come into work each and every day and stay focused. I think I lost the attention level over the last couple weeks.

He is in great shape. There is no doubt. That little exercise he did in front of his teammates was pretty impressive to watch him run. He said, 'I had a couple more in me.' I was thinking ahead to Friday (the preseason game at San Francisco) and not necessarily killing him today. He is in real good shape.

He will be out for an indefinite period of time, at least this week, and in all likelihood, next week. And then we'll just see how quickly he comes around. It's going to be difficult for him obviously in the next couple weeks with that pin in there, and in fact it is going to be immobilized.

You're a .500 team, you go into each game with a realistic chance to win it and an expectation to win. These games come down to the end and you don't make the play at the end. ... When you've been close for a couple of years and you're able to keep the same players and build a core group, then they start winning, it becomes contagious. ... Then they win more at the end than they lose. That's the difference between 8-8 and 11-5.

We did that a number of times, ... They brought a lot of pressure and we got rid of the ball.

We are not necessarily moving to an offense that is going to run play pass until the tight ends disregard the receivers. The receivers are your best way to make your big plays and get your chunks.

We'll pick up significant cap, because of the suspension without pay. So, there could be other options. We're probably going to make a roster move. Obviously, we have Damien Nash on the roster right now. Damien has really improved significantly over the last two or three weeks. Jarrett Payton is certainly a possibility. We can get Jarrett up he knows the offense. We're going to look around to see if there is more possibilities.

He is a little better. At this point, the way he was today, I would not expect him to throw tomorrow. I am hoping to get him out there by Friday so he can practice.

The difference in this game without question was our defense against the run and then our ability to run the football. I don't think anybody gave us a chance to run the football like we did Saturday. It just shows you what playoff time is all about. You've got be able to run and stop the run.

We had a number of young players who were welcomed to the National Football League (Sunday). ... We knew the type of team we were playing. We didn't play as good as we could in the first half. ... I am going to have to look long and hard to find some positives about this one.

I recall fondly, as a kid, ... when my dad would hyperextend my big toe playing the 'This Little Piggy Went to Market' game. I don't recall it hurting, and I'm pretty sure I didn't miss a football game, or a game of 'Kick the Can,' for that matter, because of it.

I think we had a number of younger players welcomed to the NFL today.

It's his pitching arm, and that needs to feel good, so we'll watch him the next couple days.

If someone is going to have a chance to beat this team before this season is over, they're going to have to take advantage of every opportunity presented to them.

Billy is fine. Billy had a slight headache after the ball game. He seemed fine today. He has got a little thigh bruise, but it shouldn't keep him from practicing this week.

Chad sometimes thinks he gets in people's heads, but most of the time, defensive players around this league line up and play, ... Pac is going to line up and play our defense. He knows that he has got to do the best he can, stay focused and concentrate.

We feel it was just muscle spasms. Over his career he has (had similar situations), but he hasn't really had much of anything to speak of this year since he came to camp.

They're day-to-day, and we hope to get them on the practice field. That would suggest things went well,

We had a record number in the MBA class this semester.

We anticipated it based on like circumstances over the last few years. Wish we would've been made aware of it sooner. Be that as it may, we're going to deal with it.

Obviously, we had some cap issues staring us in the face over the last couple of years, so we knew we'd have to make some tough decisions,

We think all three quarterbacks are outstanding prospects. We've done our homework. We've been to their pro days, and we've worked them out individually. We think all three are going to play a long time in this league.

We were very impressed with his athletic ability, his footwork, his arm strength, his delivery, his body language, huddle presence, all those things. We're certainly not misled by his statistics. We paid a lot more attention to what he was able to do on the practice field. He's quite a talent. We're very impressed.

Those are just young players trying to make plays.

In this day and age, you're going to have multiple backs. The days of the Eddie Georges are over. You're not going to find a guy that has a career span of nine to 10 years.

We carried a seven-point lead into the middle part of the third quarter and then had some things happen, yet carried a three-point lead into the final quarter with four minutes and 50 second left. But we let it slip away. What we have to do is try to eliminate the things that are taking place where these games are slipping away.

He is a lot further ahead of where he was last week at this time,

Now Atlanta didn't spend a whole lot of time game-planning. Those things stayed basic, and we were able to take advantage of it.

not anticipating him missing any time past Pittsburgh.

He was so disruptive that we had unblocked linebackers in holes, and we were forcing guards deep in the backfield and the back off course. It was really a very impressive effort.

I think I say this every year about this time we don't have mistakes that are being repeated, ... What we're doing is we're going through and exhausting that list of mistakes that have to be corrected.

I thought that maybe a kickoff approach, the eight to 10-yard run type of thing might have been a better approach. But we learned from it.

We have to look at the future as far as the quarterback position is concerned. That doesn't mean that Steve's not coming back or that he can't play a couple more years, but we're at the point now where we have to address it.

We've got both quarterbacks who are extremely healthy right now and capable of playing,

This is back-to-back weeks where our defense is going to have to stand up because the opponent chooses to hit you right in the mouth and run the football. So we're going to have to answer that challenge, and to do so, you're going to have to tackle.

I know what the rule reads, and how it is supposed to be enforced, and until I see the play, I really can't comment on it. I can only comment on the opinion of my staff upstairs and they said it should not have been called. When I see the play, I will give my opinion.

From our standpoint and from the opponents' standpoint, (he has been) the go-to guy, ... So, you get some coverage rotation and you get some match-ups and things like that, and it's been very productive for us. ... This one will be a challenge for Drew. Obviously, it is going to involve the hand and catching of the ball. ... It's going to take some time, and we'll evaluate it, seriously evaluate it, at least after the next 10-14 days as to how soon he'll get back.

It's not where we want it to be right now. We're going to take some of the blame for that over the last couple weeks. But I also have to give some credit to the Pittsburgh and Baltimore defenses. We played two pretty tough defenses here in the first two weeks.

In this particular case this year, I can't see that happening. There's no way one of these guys is not going to be a great quarterback. They are all going to be real good.

Our whole objective this week was to protect the football, and up until the time in which we gave it up, we were winning, ... That is the difference in the ballgame, the three turnovers.