Carson Palmer Game Quotations

The game meant a lot to us, ... It meant a lot to the city. We let ourselves - and everybody around us - down. But it's still early. We're 5-2. We've got a lot of things going for us. Right now, I think we're the better team. We just didn't play well.

Probably the first quarter is getting the flex and the extension back in your leg, and I have done that fairly quickly. I was ahead of the game on that. Now I'll move into the second phase, which is strength and conditioning, and then I'll move into running and jumping, and then I'll be ready to go.

You just can't let the outside world affect your game.You can't hold anything back. You can't play a different game.

It's a game we had to win to control the division. You can say all you want about how we had to beat Pittsburgh, we just needed to win this game.

I think if we've talked about anything it's that we're not going to approach this as any other week, as any different game. Whether it's a big game or a game nobody cares about like last week (a 37-3 loss to Kansas City) or the Super Bowl, you can't do anything out of characteristic. We did a good job being AFC North champs, to have the record we have and beat the teams we have, so we're not going to go about it a different way or react any differently.

It sucks, but I'm looking at it as a small bump in the road, ... I'm hoping I can get through this thing. I haven't thought of it as a big deal or a big problem. I just need to get it as solid as I can before game day, this Saturday, and hopefully I don't have to worry about it much more this season.

We were better in some areas this week and worse in some areas. We still have two more games to get sharp. There's still a lot of areas we need to fix up.

There were some huge holes for him (Johnson) and Chris. Then you look at the two turnovers defensively at the end, which won the game for us.