Chris Villarrial Quotations

We were a smash-mouth team. We'd dink and dunk you down the field and every once in a while we'd go for the big play. We were very conservative, working the clock all the time.

We're a run-oriented offense. And when you can't run the ball, you get frustrated. We had some frustration early on. But we're getting the swagger back.

When I came in 10 years ago, some of the biggest guys were at 300 pounds. Now I'm facing D-linemen at 350, 370. You have to get heavier as the years go, because everyone else is getting bigger, faster, stronger. You have to do it to keep up.

I was so proud. I thought they did a great job for the circumstances. That's only going to make us better as a team.

I think it's big, ... The communication is there, we don't have to make as many calls at the line. We can pretty much look at each other and know what's going on.

When it's an eight-man front, the back has to beat one guy. We can't block everybody. Knowing he has the ball and he's either going to run them over for a yard or he's going to make them pay, it's nice to know he's back there. I've seen him forearm guys and flip them on their head.

When we're healthy and moving the ball, good things happen,

We just don't want to let a season happen like this again. We have to find out what the problem is and fix it.

You guys will see and Buffalo fans are going to see that he's a true football coach, a down-to-earth guy and a winner. The faster we get this thing turned around, it's going to be much better for him and for us.

You get a little panicked at first. You think the worst sometimes. Luckily for me, it wasn't. It's treatable what I've got.

It would have been nice to get him 200 yards today, but we just didn't get the opportunities to keep pounding it with him. When we did start running it, (the Jets) scored that touchdown late and it was right back to pass.

You need to be this size to play this game at my position,

They're the best unit in the league and for something like that to happen, you don't expect it to happen. Our special teams played well for us all year, you can't point a finger at them.

It was terrible. It was bad. It was probably the worst pain I ever went through.

It's going to be very strange playing against some of these guys. But I looked on the roster and there's only five or six guys still left from when I was there.

It was more of being winded, ... We were planning on trying to get Duke in there even more than we did. So it was, 'Give Duke a chance there at the end,' and he got a couple reps.

It takes a different kind of individual to really think about coming back. That's major what he just went through.