Andy Reid Played Quotations

(Defensive coordinator) Jim Johnson had a great plan for him and the players came out and executed it. They played aggressive, emotional football.

I thought our defense just played their hearts out in this game, against an offense that I consider to be one of the best in the NFL,

He's a good pass rusher and he's stout enough up front to where he holds his own. We played against him (in the season-opener in 2001), so we know what he can do.

He did a nice job for it being his first time getting a number of reps. There are some things he can continue to work on in the run game, getting to know how we do things up front. He ran hard, played hard and did some nice things that you probably wouldn't expect him to do after just playing two weeks here.

I thought they played hard, but I thought there were too many mistakes. We had way too many penalties. You can't go backwards in the National Football League and expect to win football games.

We liked him as a defensive end coming out. He played linebacker in Pittsburgh and we asked him if he was interested in putting his hand down and playing defensive end again and he liked that. We thought he was a heck of a player coming out of Florida State.

He played corner in the Arena League and did a decent job there. So it's not like he has never played the position.

He played against good enough players to get an idea of what he can do. You have a pretty good idea of what he can handle.