Damien Woody Quotations

When your defense scores two touchdowns and causes four turnovers and you still lose, that's bad. That's real bad. We couldn't do (anything) on offense. That might have been the worse offense I've ever seen ever.

Let's be real. Especially if you've been in this situation for a while where it's not been a winning environment, guys might be looking elsewhere to be a part of something else.

I watched the game against Pittsburgh, and I knew what they were doing on almost every play because Charlie is running what we ran in New England. What's so tough about his offense is that it comes at you from all angles, on the ground and through the air, and it blends a bunch of different offensive philosophies.

Just because you're down doesn't mean you can't rise to be a cream-of-the-crop team. You just can't feed into what everybody else says. I can't feed into what's being written or what's being said. I've got to come to work knowing that I've got the talent, I've got the work ethic to get this thing rectified, and everybody has to believe that or we're not going to get anything accomplished.

It doesn't have to be one or two guys. I look at a team as everybody being shareholders in this thing. It's everybody's team. Everybody has a piece of this thing, and we're all pulling together as a group to get this thing taken care of.

That's the one thing I'm trying to tell guys here: Anything can happen. When we went 5-11, people thought we were just awful. But it's all about what you believe as a player and how much you're willing to put into it in order to get what you want out of it.

We could have put the game away with a four-minute drive, and we couldn't even get that accomplished. It was just one of the many disgusting moments in the game. I'm ashamed of it.

You know what it's called? It's called guys stepping up and making plays. This game is not rocket science.

Yeah, but this is not the same team as last year. This is a whole new season, a whole new team. This is a chance to set our philosophy on who we're going to be.

Did that out there (on the field) look like it would scare anybody? Why should it?

Any time an organization hasn't won a lot, you have to change the culture. No question we're a better team on paper. But everyone has to have the same level of urgency.

You're not going to bait me into giving you what you want to hear.

A lot of people around the country don't realize Boston College is known for putting up good linemen.

There needs to be a change, because something is clearly not right. I love Joey to death, but historically, that's the position where the change takes place. When things are going good, he gets the glory, and when it goes bad, he takes the fall.

It's early. How many teams do you know their philosophy in Week 2?

I want to see how we bounce back from this. That will tell what kind of team we really have. When you lose to a division opponent, 38-6, now I want to see how we react when we go to Tampa. That's going to tell the tale of what this team is really about.

That's definitely going to be a big thing because guys want to know who's going to be leading the ship. When I was in free agency and looking at the whole deal, that was definitely big for me.

I just want guys to realize what the truth is. This is the truth. We're 16-48 since 2001. That's it. I'm not trying to hurt anybody's feelings. . . . We've got to grow up. We're a bunch of grown men in here. They've got to make it happen. If they can't make it happen, we have to get guys who can.

If I had to do it all over again? After seeing all this that's gone on this year? I don't know. No. Doubt it. I mean, it's almost like it's a crisis because you see a lot of turnover. Nobody wants to be a part of anything that has a lot of turnover.