Jack Rio
Jack Rio
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Like last year, we have a very challenging start to the season with three of the first four games against playoff teams. We are especially pleased to have two Monday night home games.
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I think in an ideal world, you would first of all not have the injury at all. Secondly, if you had that opportunity to come back and play a couple of weeks prior to going into such a big game that would be ideal. But it doesn't always have to be ideal. You adjust and adapt.
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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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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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Three points is not enough to win. You are not going to win many games doing that.
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We had a series of events in that third quarter that turned a real good game into a game they pulled away from.
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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 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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It's hard to win three games in a row on the road.
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We're not going to be a team that gives up a lot of sacks. We have given up too many in these first two games and we'll look to address that. We're not looking for this to be a trend, that's for sure.
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When you're plus-five on the turnover ratio, it shouldn't be that close. For us to be that close at the end of the game was a direct result of not finishing in the red zone with touchdowns. ... We want to be stronger and punch it in down there.
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I'm not discouraged at all. We could be more efficient with how we ran the ball and blocked and executed the run game. But I was proud of how we were able to stay with the run game and control the game as much as we did.
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We try to add as many good football players as we can, coach them up to play to the best of their ability and give us a better chance to compete.
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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.