Mike Shanahan Guy Quotations

Matt felt a little better (Friday) than he did, so that's a big plus, ... It's just like a game. If a guy goes down, you like to see guys come up. We'll get a look at some guys, and it should help them down the line.

We'd sure take him. He's the type of guy you love because he handles himself with so much class. When you have a guy who does that as a rookie being drafted as high as he was, it speaks volumes for the future.

When you have your second, third or fourth back that knows the system, you can throw him in there every day. That is why it's tough to pick a guy up during the season, because you actually want that guy to contribute to the team.

You hope a guy can step up in games and do it like he does it in practice,

You're hoping a guy performs better than that, ... He's been pretty consistent in practice ... You always hope a guy is going to step up and do it in a game like they do in practice, but he hasn't done that yet.

They just assumed the guy was down. You gotta tackle them. You have to have three or four guys hit him. They just assumed he was down.

Any time you lose a guy and two guys in the same position there is an impact. You are depleted in depth at that position, two guys that we felt that could help us are Browner and Chris Young.

He studies the game. He's got a sense of urgency about him. He's very sharp. When he practices, he practices full-speed. There are a lot of people who get to Super Bowls, but really don't practice on a high level. He's a guy who practices like he's trying to make the team each and every day.

That's why you bring in a veteran player. You never know when a player goes down, a guy's got to step up and play.

A guy like Vince Young, I don't care, he's going to have to protect himself. Michael Vick is going to have to protect himself. Sooner or later, it's going to wear on a guy and he's going to get hurt.