Famous Quotes & Sayings

I thought our defense helped them shoot 24 percent. We felt like we should have been up by more.

I thought our defense down the stretch was key. That was a very good team we faced. We couldn't stop them.

Drew Bledsoe

I thought our defense completely shut them down today. They were able to keep their offense of the field. I thought that was big. They never really got it going because our defense really played well today.

I think we were distracted with Senior Night in the first half. At halftime we refocused and put our energy in defense and rebounding. And our guys responded to play the way they can.

I think we took a positive step tonight. We reduced the penalties and the turnovers and it looked like the defense was getting to the football.

Brian Rafalski

I think we still have a pretty solid defense one through six.

Brian Billick

I think what this defense did this season was diminished by people taking shots at who we played late in the season,

Dom Capers

I think what it comes down to, no matter what defense you're in, it's a matter of players going out and making plays. I think many times (the scheme) is overrated.

Brad Childress

I think that every defense has some element of it. Some people have more tied into it as a staple. This would be one team that is tied into it as a staple.

I think as far as linebackers are concerned, if you can run and make plays and if you have an instinct to be around the ball, you'll succeed (in the Eagles' system). This defense is in your face, it puts pressure on the offense and it dictates. We don't read and react. We dictate to the offense what we want to do and make them make a decision.

We're learning every day, and that's why we're turning the corner. I'm trying to take it one pitch at a time and let the defense do its thing. I'm trying to stay within myself.

We're kind of streaky like that. We started with a little lull there in the first half, but then we got a little hot. The key is to keep playing steady defense and rebounding.

We still have to improve on some things. Our full-court defense for one. We aren't satisfied with our season yet. We know we have to improve, and we keep working every game.

We still had a lot of defensive breakdowns, but it?s nice to see kids understand the fact that defense will keep you in a game regardless if you?re having a poor shooting night.

We had some good hitting out there. Our defense is going to be much improved.

Tom Holden was outstanding in goal. I thought the whole defense played extremely well.

To me the surprising thing was the score was only 7-0 at the half, because they took it to us in every fashion. I give our defense a lot of credit. We're a young team. We only have three starters back. So, I knew we would learn a lot about our guys in this game. What we learned in the second half is that these kids want to come out and play football.

We are looking at all our alternatives right now. We have always been very vigorous in our defense of our patent portfolio.

Chad Greenway

We're a team that needs to improve. That's what we know we are. We're a team that isn't satisfied with where we're at. We're a team that makes too many mistakes on defense and we need to shore that up.

We're comfortable playing everyone we've got on the bench. One of our keys all year is getting contributions on offense and defense from a lot of different players.

We used the same defense we used at our place earlier this year. We started with a half-court trap and fell back into a man-to-man until the very end there.

We used a 1-3-1 defense all season and have been successful. We wanted to keep them away and force shots.

We showed a different defense and Shafter didn't handle the zone well.

Julian Peterson

We should have won that game. It should have been up to the defense.

We shot 67 percent from the field. That just doesn't happen very often. We were successful because our offensive efficiency was as good as it's been all year. Drake also was more efficient offensively than any team has been all season in terms of points per possession. If we expect to win, our defense has got to be much better.

Mike Shanahan

When you do that, it makes it hard for your defense to play four quarters at the level that we expect them to play. We did not do a very good job on offense. I can not put my thumb on it, because there was some great effort, guys played hard, but you have to have eleven guys out there playing together. One guy here (and) one guy there just doesn't get it done.

Michelle Gardner

When you don't score, it doesn't matter how many runs you give up. We played very solid defense. We made a few mistakes here and there, but really, for the most part, our defense did a great job. Our hitting is going to come around. I'm very pleased with the effort the kids gave. They played hard.

Tim Hatten

We've got to get better on offense. We're a little better on defense from last year. We've got to make up ground on offense. We've dropped some balls.

We've got to get better offensively. We're not giving our defense a chance.

We've got to focus on our defense and rebounding.

We've got to come hard. We had them by 20 the last time we played, we just let them come back. We have to play defense good the whole game. We can't go soft of them, regardless of how much time is left in the game.

We've got to be more patient on offense if we don't score on the fast break. We want to make them play defense for an extended period of time.

We've got to be able to play good defense to win. If it comes down to where a kid's going to play, he might have to see more time on the defensive side.