Mark Roman Quotations

We blew the coverage. But I still have to get the guy down.

Ultimately, I have to get the guy down. I'm a safety, that's my job. I'll shoulder the blame as far as that goes. But we just blew the call.

No, I don't feel like he got what he deserved, but it's a business and sometimes you don't get out of it what you put into it.

I think so. But Darren also taught me a lot. Him being a Pro Bowl player and being to the top of the league in the safety position was good for me last year to come in here and see how he does things and see his work ethic,

Jim's a great coach. From a defensive perspective, I know he brings us a lot of things we can hang our hat on. I definitely think he has the ability. I don't know the Packers' criteria for deciding if a guy's good or not, but he definitely has the kind of leadership required. He led the defense to be pretty good.

But regardless of whether I was injured or wasn't good enough or what have you, why - and I'm just posing this question to people who were thinking I was so bad - why would I still be out there?

Sometimes do I think it was unjust? Yeah, but I can think about it all I want - it (isn't) going to change what's going on this year. I'm trying to put all that stuff as far away from my mind as I can possibly get it and just move on and try to prosper in this new year.

That's what keeps me out there trying to be perfect. Because I feel people still haven't seen the best of what Mark Roman can bring to their team on defense.

This is a new year. Last year is the furthest thing from my mind right now. Right now, my (mind-set) is to go out and control the things I can control. I'm not looking for one thing to vindicate me.

This is what helped me every day and allowed me to go out and practice and try not to let things bother me: People still haven't seen, I believe, what I have to offer,

It really don't change it much. They really weren't throwing the ball a whole heck of a lot to begin with anyway. So I don't think that's going to change our preparation any.

It's pretty bad. I don't know what to say. Nobody's used to this, nobody in here wants to get used to this. And some kind of way, we've got to turn it around. That's the only thing we can do, just turn it around.

I'm not saying that I had zero awareness or I didn't know how to play the game. But to see a Pro Bowl player go out there and do it each and every day kind of enlightened me to do what I needed to do to elevate my game.

He's steadily been getting better. There's not been a lot of big mistakes on either of our parts.

He thought he would be playing for a championship. neither one of us thought we'd be 1-4. It'll be kind of funny, but we've got a game to play. Once we say, 'What's up?' and greet each other at the beginning of the game, then it's on.

He's a playmaker, and anytime you've got a playmaker and you lose him, you lose something,

If I could be out there each and every play running around I would be. But I can't right now, and that's just something I've got to deal with.