Tiki Barber
Tiki Barber
Steven "Tiki" Barberis a former American football running back who played for the New York Giants of the National Football Leaguefor ten seasons. He played college football for the University of Virginia. He was drafted by the New York Giants in the second round of the 1997 NFL Draft, and played his entire professional career for them...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionFootball Player
Date of Birth7 April 1975
CityBlacksburg, VA
CountryUnited States of America
We knew coming into this one it was the biggest game of our season. We needed this one. We didn't play great. It wasn't always pretty. But we did enough. Our defense held together.
Do I think guys are going to come out and try to hurt him? That's not the way the NFL works. You play hard and you do the best you can regardless of the opponent. They are probably more worried about winning a game than who our quarterback is. I'm sure he is going to hear boos, but I'm going to hear boos. That is the perils of playing on the road. He's a big boy, he can handle it.
It's a crosstown rival. It's Jets -Giants, like Mets-Yankees. It's a big game. But mostly it's a big game for us because the starters will play well into the third quarter and it'll be a measuring stick to see where we are as a team.
They played with a different level of intensity, and we didn't match that. This game was for the season to them, and they came to play.
This game is about momentum. Washington has the momentum and a deep-seated desire, and they have a purpose. It showed in how they played today. They played with a different level of intensity, and we didn't match that.
I think we believe it. I don't think there's a doubt in our minds. But as always in this game you have to prove it, not only to people who are watching, but also to yourself.
He did great. He had a phenomenal game.
He doesn't want to carry the ball, ... He got knocked out last week and came up after the game and said: 'That's why I never want to carry the ball. I'm too slow and I can't get out of the way.'
At the end of the game, when we needed to score some points, we turned it on. Unfortunately that's been an M. O. for us this season. We're only scoring when we have to score. When we have to, we do it. But it should never come to that. We should be able to play with the sense of urgency and consistency that allows these games not to come down to the last two minutes of every one.
That's encouraging, ... but no solace. The bottom line is we lost this game and we should have won.
I remember early in my career we couldn't lose division games, ... Now, with Philadelphia taking such prominence in the division the last few years, it's been a struggle. So we have a lot to do and these games mean a whole lot, every single one of them.
It was his first game as a full-time starter for us. We have a lot of talent around him, a lot of veteran players. He doesn't need to be Joe Montana right now. He has time to develop into that. As long as we play well around him, I think he'll continue to develop and be the great quarterback we expect him to be.
If you run the ball, you control the clock. If you control the clock, you usually control the game.
It was a horrible game. We played terrible.