Jon Kitna
Jon Kitna
Jon Kelly Kitnais an American football coach and former quarterback. After playing college football for Central Washington University, he signed with the Seattle Seahawks in 1996 and was allocated to the Barcelona Dragons of NFL Europe in 1997. He led the Dragons to a World Bowl championship, and became the starting quarterback for the Seahawks in 1998 after spending the 1997 and most of the 1998 seasons as the backup to Warren Moon. Following a four-year stint with Seattle, Kitna...
approach best guy number played politics
That's what they said, right now you're the guy in the huddle. When we go to the number ones, you're in there. That's the way I approach it. There's not going to be any politics played here with the new staff. The best guy is going to play. I feel comfortable where I'm at.
agents cut free good half healthy less market money spend
Basically, the money has been cut in half because there are more free agents on the market with less money to spend on them. This whole situation, it's not good for any of us and it's not good for the game. Something that was so healthy is now not so healthy.
cincinnati
Cincinnati was worse. They said Cincinnati was the quarterback graveyard, and I'm still alive.
almost brought tears
It almost brought me to tears going in there to see him.
ahead detriment fix happened last next road sentiment
There's no sentiment in it for me. We still have a long road ahead of us. I think it's important for us to play well and fix some of the things that happened to us last week, but not at the detriment of next week's game. We have to be smart.
learned plan trying
He's a big part of our plan in those situations, ... He's someone who has learned what defenses are trying to do.
substitute
In this league, there's no substitute for getting experience.
goes great opportunity sees
He's very detailed. There's nothing that goes by the wayside. He sees everything. But the great thing about it is he's going to give us every opportunity to be successful.
felt game hurry trying weird
It was a weird game. You felt like they were trying to hurry up and get the game over with, so they could get to (the playoffs).
guys
Other guys were shocked, ... It was discouraging.
chance game glad hardest timing
The hardest thing for me is getting the timing back. But I was glad I had the chance today. If I go into a game in the postseason, then I feel like I will be more prepared.
ball felt game glad half second terms throw
I felt better in the second half in terms of being able to throw the ball where I wanted to throw it. I'm glad to have had (Sunday) so that if I have to go in a game in the postseason I feel like I'll be more prepared.
handle inmates leadership nobody running strong structure ups
In this league, you've got to have strong leadership; you've got to be able to handle the ups and downs, ... Nobody had been through the ups here. We didn't have that structure set up to back the leadership that was in place. The inmates were running the asylum.
field goal recovered
We had that letdown, we didn't get that (second-half) field goal and it kind of deflated us. We never recovered from that.