Phillip Daniels Quotes (24 Quotes)

I feel pretty good. I've still got a few more days, but I don't feel any pain. With a tape job, I should be okay. I don't want to miss this game.

It keeps the defense intact and going in the right direction and with him and hopefully the other coaches staying, we'll keep this thing going. It's a late Christmas present for all of us.

They weren't max-protecting like they did the first game. Everyone was just so focused. I've never had a four-sack game in my life. Not high school, college, pickup, whatever.

He's one of the nicest coaches I've played for. He's a man that will go to battle and protect your back. He's one of those guys who always wants to know what the players think and wants to make sure we're OK. ... You don't hardly ever get a coach who wants to know how the players feel. Half of them don't care. They just want to win.

Dockery uses his body to compensate for deficiencies in technique. If you get around him, ... you can get around anybody. He's a wide dude.

This means a lot to our city. You saw how many of our fans were at the game. It's time for this city to be exposed to the playoffs.

On film we saw them just come up and snap the ball, ... But Sunday he was going into a cadence and when everybody comes up there and he sees blitz, then he throws it deep downfield. Maybe it's because of all the big plays we gave up the weeks before, and they used that to their advantage.

We saw that play all week and just didn't play it well in the game. We had several guys that could have turned that play inside and it probably wouldn't have been a touchdown. A couple of guys played the wrong side of the blocks.

We just have to go out there and play our game and not worry about who we are facing. We just have to be solid up front, stay in our gaps and do all the little things, tackling. All those things are pretty big. We played him pretty well last time.

It was loud, man. It was the loudest I've heard, and I played here. This crowd, they were loud. It felt like a lot bigger crowd than what it was. They did what they needed to do to help their team and help them win.

Bad luck, that's what it seems like to me, man. We play hard and work on it and get them in practice all the time it's just not happening in the games.

The blitz is designed to get there and when it doesn't get there, you're in trouble. Teams adjust on that.

They've had our number the last few years. They kept saying the first game was a fluke. Now you know. It wasn't a fluke.

I love hearing all the know-it-alls say that we couldn't do it. Some of those guys might need to be fired.

We weren't as aggressive as we normally are. Everybody noticed that, and we noticed that, but Williams was doing it for a reason. Gregg doesn't do anything to hurt us he was doing it for a reason and we've just got to do whatever he calls and stop them.

I thought we were right back in it after we got the kickoff back. But we had a lot of chances in this game that we let slip.

But that's how it is in this league. You can't leave it up to the officials to make those kinds of calls because they're human, too. They're going to make mistakes. The official thought he got in, so he got in. We've just got to make up for it when we go back.

It's sad to see because he has battled through his injuries and did some good things in the preseason.

We thought we won that game.

We have trust in both quarterbacks. We just go with coach's decision. Coach Gibbs knows what's best for this team, and we just deal with it. We can't let that be a distraction for this team.

There was no enthusiasm ... We just seemed like a bunch of guys like a deer in the headlights, a lot of guys just wondering who is going to make the plays instead of going out and making the play. That's how it was to me. Whoever is on the field first is going to set the tone, and we can't let the other team go down the field and get a long run and set the tone early in the game.

People kept saying it was a fluke that first game. I think we showed today it was no fluke.

I live for games like this. You dream about playing in games like this, win-or-die-type games. Coach will have us ready. We just have to go do it.

I'm not really worried about this because I know we'll respond next game and step up. We knew they were going to make some plays, but the little things we did to hurt ourselves, we've got to eliminate those and we'll be fine.