Mike Dailey Quotations

We utilized his leg strength to kick it over the net because he had that ability, and that assured our defense would be in a situation where the offense would have to go 45 yards to score. Clay is more than capable of backing off a little and putting it into the net. We are working with him now on some things on where we want him to kick it. They want returns as part of the game for the excitement.

We have six games remaining. You've got to come out each week and realize that if you are feeling real good about it, then you are probably wrong. If you're feeling real bad about it, you're probably wrong. It is what it is at this point in time.

He was the offensive player of the year last year and it would be tough to think he could get much better than that, but he's having a spectacular year.

His natural side of the ball in college was the defensive line. This is his third season in the arena league, and he has certainly developed a lot as an offensive player. He's worked at it very hard. He's taken a lot of pride in it.

I see it much differently than everyone else because they are exceptionally good. They have a lot of talent. In the AFL, the games are so close and if you don't play well, you are going to be in situations you don't want to be in.

Our guys are professionals. They have been playing hard. They also have not been panicking in good or bad situations. We made a lot of plays (Friday).

Marcus Nash is a real talent and has had great success in our league. Obviously, Damian Harrell has done a great job for us. It's a wide-open passing game, so those two guys are the focal points.

I thought it was great. We kept doing what we needed to do. We just kept playing and, in arena football, we don't think about what is going offensively or defensively.

We have to prepare ourselves for (Bishop) and the other guy. It may be a case where they play multiple quarterbacks.

You'd like to come out and play well every game. They are all important. I thought Utah played real well. I thought we played uninspired.

We don't have a roster of 45 or 53 players or 100 guys like in college, and we're very tight on the salary cap.

We didn't panic after the first quarter. They had a turnover, and we took advantage of it. Then we got a great defensive stop in the second quarter.

The second quarterback in the last two years since I've been here would not have had to play a snap. He did because of situations where we were way far ahead or way behind. We had Jose Davis. We felt great that he could come in and play and play effectively. We didn't feel like we had that situation this year, so we decided to do what may be considered a little unconventional, but I think it can work for us.

It's tough to win on the road, and we've had good success winning on the road.

It's tough in the AFL to play defense. They've done a good job. I felt they stepped it up (Sunday). If you can get some stops in there, it can make such a big difference.

If you come out and play hard and get beat, that's part of sports. But to come out and play uninspired, that's very hard to deal with.