Jim Johnson Played Quotations

I think we played a pretty good game tonight. Not necessarily the first quarter and not necessarily at the very end.

Jevon and N.D. played a lot of plays. They were tired. We need to get Trent Cole in more. Here's a rookie and he made a rookie mistake when he let Michael Vick outside, so we were concerned, but we've got to force ourselves to get him more time. We got to get more rest for ND and Jevon.

Jevon and N.D. played a lot of plays and were tired. We need to get Cole in there a little more. He's a rookie and makes a rookie mistake ... so we were a bit concerned. But we have to force ourselves to give him more time.

They look like they?re in shape but we haven?t played a whole game of football. We haven?t seen them play 60 or 70 plays.

Kids who played Junior Blue Devils had an advantage (when they went out for high school football).

It doesn't bother me. I know it bothers him, but he'll come around. He was a little bit banged up last Sunday, but he played hard, made some plays in the run game and put pressure on the quarterback a couple of times. That will come. I don't worry about individual stats. I just want to make sure we get the effort -- and he is giving us great effort.

Their outside backers came up and played (the run) well.

That's a black eye to all the guys who played hard, ... (The team) is going to have to prove to me it can have self control.

He hasn't played a lot. So we'll probably try to get him in there right away and just see how physical he is in run situations.

We came in here thinking from the start we could win. We were a little disappointed at halftime that we were down. I said, 'We played pretty poorly and they played pretty good ? and we were only down by three.' We really weren't in that bad of shape after what I thought was not a good first-half effort.