Jack Rio
Jack Rio
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Sometimes, if you don't fit properly on defense, you're going to have plays go against you. And there are sometimes some pretty good players on the other team. Vick is a heck of a player.
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Doctors determined (surgery) was necessary, that rest was not going to make it better. It's a simple procedure to allow him to get back in a few weeks without the continuing pain.
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It just depends. Certainly, in order to get a guy enough touches, you have to let him get going. There are some backs that can go in and spot-play and give you a jolt, then there are some backs that need to play in order to get in a rhythm and get themselves going. You have to really identify which kind of guys you have.
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With Jerome, he's been doing it a long time. He's been a great player for a long, long time and looked really good Monday night. We understand what he brings. Parker just brings some juice. This guy is fast. That really jumps out at you.
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We want to win any game we compete in. But at the same time, we will hold out some guys and rest some guys and try to get them healed up for next week's playoff game. We'll be smart about how much we play certain people. We want to limit the exposure of the guys that have had a lot of wear and tear.
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We've got some big, strong men in that locker room. The key for us was not to blink.
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We can strengthen ourselves to be a team that's resting on Wild Card weekend and earning a home playoff game to advance. If you do that, that's a significant step toward the ultimate goal of winning a world championship. It doesn't guarantee anything, but to me, that's next on the wish list.
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We've done a lot of things with him. He's intelligent. He's been able to handle a lot of different assignments and make very few mistakes.
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We had to have a defensive stop. We were one play away from getting the ball back.
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Three points is not enough to win. You are not going to win many games doing that.
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Three points is not enough to win. You are not going to win very many games doing that. We are disappointed with our output. We played hard and took away some of the things they wanted to do, but in the end it wasn't enough to win.
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We don't anticipate playing our starting players for long. The two major keys to this game is to complete the evaluation process and to get our team to the opener healthy.
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We do. We're optimistic that we'll get him back for the playoffs. We want to rest him this week. They want to re-examine the hand next week and have a better indication of whether we'll get him or not, but we remain optimistic that we'll get him back.
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We don't ever feel like we want to go into a draft and, particularly early in the draft, go after need. I think that's something you look at more on the second day, if you haven't been able to have it line up the way you'd like it to the first day.