London Fletcher Quotations

We stress everybody staying in their gap responsibility, ... and also getting off blocks. We have to do a better job of disengaging from blocks.

We're expecting him to play. They're 1-4 and he's a competitor. ... You see them at 1-4 right now and wonder how that's happened.

I would say he's the top outside linebacker playing in the game right now because he can do it all,

I thought Angelo did well considering he was thrown in there with no notice. The one thing about being a backup is you have to prepare like you're about to play. He does a great job of preparing, and (linebackers coach) Don Blackmon does a great job of preparing the backups like starters.

I think Kelly did an excellent job of not just managing the football game but making plays. He's a veteran guy. . . . There's not a blitz he hasn't seen, and he understands who to get the ball to in those situations.

I wasn't anywhere near 100 percent. Probably about 80 percent. Some of the plays that I'm normally able to make, from sideline to sideline, running and pursuing plays and getting after the quarterback, I wasn't able to do because of my limited ability. But I was able to do what I could do. It's something that I have to deal with until I get back to 100 percent.

When Takeo called me, it was like going along with what I had already prayed to God for. And to start the football game the way we started, I was laughing on the sideline because it felt like God was answering my prayers.

Week in and week out you have to be on top of your game because there's not a lot of room for error.

Yeah, it was a long night, still thinking, 'Wow, what exactly took place yesterday? For the game to go like it went, it still hasn't truly set in.

We still have a lot of work to do. By no stretch of the imagination are we comfortable with what happened.

We had a couple of lulls in different series of the game, especially in the second half. For the most part, I thought we did a great job defensively, especially creating turnovers. The thing that made the difference here were the turnovers. We won the turnover battle.

We got knocked down a bit today, but the beauty is we get another chance. Now, we've got to get ready for next week.

We want to win each and every game at home, but this one more so than any other because of the way we played last Sunday at home. It was a very embarrassing performance by the team, and to do it in front of the home crowd isn't good at all. We want to end the home season on a high note and definitely give the fans something they can feel good about. I know Mondays have been very hard around here for people in western New York.

We were in position to make plays and we didn't make them.

You can never get comfortable. We had a couple of lulls in different series of the game, especially in the second half. We still have a lot of work to do.

You had two teams that really wanted to win this football game, ... and nobody was going to back down for anybody.

We were playing it kind of like a seven-man front. We still wanted to protect against the deep pass. We've been very successful stopping the run in seven-man fronts. They were just able to find that crease. . . . They did a good job of blocking and getting us in defenses where our secondary guy was having to be the cutback player. We'll adjust.

The toughest guy to tackle? Probably Marshall Faulk . Charlie Garner was something special before the injuries. Charlie played full speed all the time. He had shiftiness and ran with good power for a fairly small running back. Yeah, I'd have to say those two guys: Marshall because of the elusiveness and Charlie because he had the speed and shiftiness and ran with good power.

After a victory like that it's great, but it's also sad because you think this is the team we could have been all season long and we could have played like this in other games.

You're judged by your last performance each and every week. We had a great one coming out. Now we're back to Square One.

They're very basic in their approach to the run game. They run what we call a power-O, a counter, some tosses and lead weaks. Those were basically the plays.

They do a tremendous job on special teams. They are three gifted athletes out there playing on special teams and they take it serious. Those are three guys who can definitely play football in regular situations.

It's a big blow for our defense. However, we will still play football on Sunday. Injuries happen all the time. We've got some other guys that have to take up the slack.

It's been a crazy year, an emotional roller-coaster.

It's amazing what one victory can do, ... I think we can build on this. But we still have a lot of work to do.

They did a good job of blocking the run and getting us in defenses where our secondary guy was the cutback player,

I know you can go from losing one season to celebrating at the podium.

I mean, look at the statistics. He's proven that he can be a starting quarterback in the National Football League week in and week out and definitely a starter for us.

I really didn't know if I was going to be able to play until right before the game,

For one reason or another we just didn't get the breaks. Sometimes you have seasons like that.

You may dream about turning it around as quickly as we did, but you wouldn't expect it to become reality, ... But we jelled quickly and got it done. We're a whole new defense compared to last year.

This is only the third game of the season, there's still 13 games to play. We'll continue to compete.

The last time I checked they don't play the playoffs after three games.

The last time I checked they didn't play the playoffs after three games. We're 1-2. OK, it is what it is. We get back to work, look at the tape, make corrections. You sit here and have a pity party for yourself, and it'll get real ugly real quick.