Mike Shanahan Guys Quotations

I just told Steve to loosen up and told Brian this could happen, ... I told both guys to stay alert. I wasn't really sure which direction I was going to go.

Both guys played extremely well. I was really happy with the young corners.

That's what coaches do, teach. If you can't teach, you can't coach. And these guys have done an excellent job since they've been here.

Our guys aren't as big as some. But they do have great speed. We really thrive on speed with our defense. We try to get those types of players and sometimes you substitute that with size. Our linebackers do have good speed.

What you try to do is get guys to understand their role. They may not like being second team, but when they do get an opportunity to play, they take advantage of that opportunity. . . . We've got a lot of players like that.

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.

When you do that, it makes it hard for your defense to play four quarters at the level that we expect them to play. We did not do a very good job on offense. I can not put my thumb on it, because there was some great effort, guys played hard, but you have to have eleven guys out there playing together. One guy here (and) one guy there just doesn't get it done.

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.

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.

It's very important for the team to know exactly how I feel. (But) I don't necessarily have to wear my thoughts on my chest, ... I've got a job to do, get these guys ready ... Sometimes I do keep things in-house because I think they should be in-house.

Some guys (have) got more growing to go. That's part of the season. But I thought we made some strides and hopefully it pays dividends.

It's one of the deeper teams we've had, I believe, ... We'll see in the end if we can keep it going. But the nature of this business is you're going to lose players. It happens to every football team. We've had guys step up and play well and hopefully we can keep it going.

If these guys are hurt, they'll play. If they're injured, they can't play. . . . But we'll evaluate that later in the week and find out where they're at.

We'll keep all three of those guys out, ... But they should be able to go next week.