Matt Baker Quotes (15 Quotes)

Past Carolina teams may have folded when we get down like that. Not this team. No one got down. We just got down to business.

I thought we did pretty good defensively, ... We sometimes messed up on some of our keys. The second half, we picked it up and everything was almost perfect.

The time and effort he put into it was downright impressive.

This past weekend was also the fourth anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks that killed so many of our fellow citizens.

You can look at those last two drives, but it comes down to ... penalties, dropped balls and bad throws, ... We were not very precise today as an offense.

That's what I've been waiting for, why I stuck around -- to win football games, ... And it's a tough loss, to know it was right there at the end.

You get that feeling, ... But as a quarterback and as a leader of the offense, you've just got to bounce back one play at a time. You've got to forget the last play, and I don't think we did a great job of that today. I think it kind of did snowball on us. We weren't able to bounce back, and there's no excuse for that. You've got to be able to come back when bad things happen.

We didn't have a good practice at all yesterday morning,

Mostly they're coming in the passing game, in blitz pickup and protections and check-downs, ... He's got the running game pretty much covered. He's in the right place all the time.

There really wasn't any discussion until after the fact, ... To a lot of my constituents, it just seemed to not be correct. Yeah, it's a lot of money to forgo, but my constituents and myself felt it was the right thing to do.

I'll take it and start with me, ... I'll take the majority of the heat for it. It starts with me. That's how it works.

There's just such a mass of hotels that just want to give the service away for free. When that's what you're competing against, it just gets harder.

you're not going to win games like that, when you go dead for a whole quarter.

That's why I stuck around, to go out and win football games. It's a tough loss to know it was right there until the end. You can look at those last two drives, but it comes down on offense to missed assignments, dropped balls and bad throws. We were not very precise today.

They played great. Hats off to the defense. We apologize to them. It was the offense today. We didn't make any plays. Again. The defense played unbelievable today.