Jason Taylor Quotations

The play worked, ... Randy was wide open.

We're fine. . . . We'll see what happens in the draft, we'll see what happens with the free agency and that's what's most important. Let the system run its course and see what happens.

We're not good enough to overcome killing ourselves all the time. But we're getting there.

Let's not let these individuals with this devil mentality corrupt our city. For people who are scared to come forth, come forth. We shouldn't have to be afraid.

Maybe if I stopped doing it, everybody else will.

I would have liked to have been in the end zone a couple of more times when we were down there. We've got to be able to close out our drives. It wasn't a bad start.

I don't know what they're going to do. It's going to be a tough choice who they keep and who they don't. We've got a bunch of veterans I know they're going to keep. After that, it's going to be difficult.

I don't know that we've proven anything yet. I think we took a step in the right direction.

Buffalo won the game, and I give them credit. They've been through a lot, they've been struggling, and they had the whole quarterback situation to deal with this week. They won the game, but you can't tell me they beat us. I don't care what anybody says. I know we lost the game, but they didn't beat us.

Frustrating, ... It's tough when you miss sacks, but Jake's not called the Snake for nothing.

He is a tough kid and hung in there and played well.

He goes off sometimes, but I think it's good. When people make mistakes and are repeatedly messing up over and over again, at some point you've got to grab them by the back of the neck and slap them.

We're on the right track, heading in the right direction. Unfortunately, right now, we're out of track. We just have to wait now and tee it up next year.

He was a great teammate. It will be different to see him in a Jets uniform. But if he gets into the game, I'm going to have to hit him. I might help him up, though.

He did his time and paid the price that he had to pay for what he did and he is back. From Day 1, we've adopted him as back in the family, and everything is fine. ... Hopefully he can help us get some victories.

Just stupid, people doing dumb stuff, me included. I've seen games that are dump and stupid and sloppy, and you get your (butt) kicked. To have five turnovers and however many penalties we had and still have a chance to win the game at the end? It shows we can be a darned good team if we get our head out of our butt.

It has been a little edgy. We are more focused and realize that we have a lot of things that need to be corrected.

Jay is a guy that I had a whole lot of respect for when he was here,

Some of the predictions out there are frankly an insult.

My wife and I were the victims in an unfortunate incident last night, but we are both fine.

I think this will be a good gage to see where we are. We need to go out there and perform well.

Who knows what the face of this team is going to look like next year? Winning six in a row ending in December isn't going to do a thing for you come next September. A lot of stuff happens.

We have people out in the middle of nowhere come here and are on death's doorstep.

We have a lot of respect for him. He's a very good talent. He can run. He's quick. He's powerful. He has great vision. If we can't stop him, it's going to be a long day.

We haven't done anything yet. We won one game. Big deal.

The pressures in college will be a little less than they were in the NFL. I think it will work out for him.

Those are things we have to fix. We cannot give up opportunities.

We asked her if she has ever been out on a boat. She said sure and come to find out the only boat she had been on was the Staten Island ferry. It's certainly not a flat bottom boat, ... She never did figure out how to get up and walk from one end to the other. Every time she got up she nearly turned the boat over. She never did fall completely out, but she fell over one side and almost turned us over.

We saw him in college down here, and he's been doing a great job in the league,

We're three games in and we're 2-1. We still haven't done anything yet. We'll go into the bye week and try to get healthy and regroup.

We got an ugly win that was very beautiful.

You had to be on time to meetings, had to pay attention in them.

You do one early in the year and everyone's going to do it to you until you put the fire out. It's my responsibility to put the fire out, not only for myself but everybody else. Maybe if I stop committing penalties, than everybody else will stop.

We did a decent job of keeping them off balance,

We didn't make the playoffs. We definitely did a better job this year, but we still didn't make the playoffs.

At this point, I want to be good enough (at linebacker) to win games.

Don't get me wrong, we haven't proven anything yet. We won a game, big deal.

There's one voice here. There's one person out front, and that's Nick, and everything goes through him. Not everybody likes it, but that's the way he runs his ship.

I've seen games that are stupid and dumb and sloppy a lot of penalties and you get your (butt) kicked,

You play whoever's out there. Those are all professional players.

They were loading the box up. They were bound and determined not to let us run, and we were taking advantage of that. Our game plan is to run the ball always, we throw it when we want to.

They got on a plane and came down here and kicked our butts in our backyard.

They did what we want to. They played like a team getting ready for a playoff run.

There's a lot of guys that haven't been here in years past for all the streaks and the things we've had going on with them. There's an obvious rivalry there that adds to it a little bit. ... But the way that we approach each game will be the same way regardless of who the opponent is.

It's a critical game. We're both first in the MEAC,

For $15, I mean, it's a lifesaver. Or, it could be a lifesaver.

It's more of a thinking man's game. It isn't easy to be down in a three-point stance one play and rush the quarterback, and get up and turn and drop and cover a receiver or back the next. I think it will be a good fit once I learn what the heck I'm doing.

It's a lot of stuff to learn, but I love it. We want to be the aggressors, the ones throwing things at them to see if they can handle it instead of waiting for them to come at us. Sometimes it puts you in tough spots, leaving the secondary out on an island, but I'd rather take my chances with it that way. We came out ahead of them with it today.

It's like the whole hurry-up and wait thing. It means to go after it but to also make sure you get it right the first time.

That's on me. I should have been on the other side. I should have made a play on the ball, but that's not where I should have been.

It kind of upset me to see it again hanging in the hallway, but when you win it, you can do that. I'm glad they got fined by their team, but I'm not big on bulletin-board stuff. If you need a bulletin board to get you going for Sunday, then you need to get a new line of business.

It's disappointing we can't continue this, but we did it to ourselves. It's tough to end the season as one of the league's hottest teams. But we've just got to deal with it.

It was a mistake by me. I should have been on the other side. It's not a good feeling. I saw what the route was going to be and just misplayed it. I could have made a play on the ball, but I just misplayed it.

Oh well, we tied it. Stats are for fans, anyways.

It won't happen again. We know they are a better team than that.

They've lost a lot of players. They're banged up and injured and all that. But they've got that 'X' factor.

I'm good now, ... I'm back among the living.

I'm excited that last year I made it to the number one seed, but this year I have to help the team as much as possible.

I made a couple of plays, but it wasn't enough to help us win. I need to make more big plays and not jump offsides. I'm just anticipating the snaps. I have to be more disciplined and play it better. It's inexcusable.

I had no idea what (quarterback) Gus (Frerotte) was talking about, ... I asked Randy where I was supposed to go.

If you come back and say, 'Look guys, I made a mistake. I'm back. I'm ready to go and I'm with you,' .... it is easy to forgive. We've all made mistakes in life and done things we all regret. If anybody sat here and said they didn't, then they are lying. It's easy. You can't hold a grudge forever.

I remember playing Charlie way back when he was at Steel Valley,

I really don't think I'd take hormone injection. I'd try to keep it all natural.

I guess that is the future, huh. That means that we will be out of here pretty soon. . . . Hopefully, those guys will pan out and have the careers that Sam (Madison) and Zach (Thomas) have had. It would be great for them and the organization.

Chad didn't throw the ball well last week, and he really didn't throw it good today.

Chad didn't throw the ball great last week, ... and he really didn't throw it that well this week. But we just didn't challenge him.

Chad didn't throw that well last week and he really didn't throw well today. But he got the job done and we really didn't play that well.

But to have five turnovers and how many ever penalties we had and, really, have a chance to win the game at the end ... it shows we can be a darn good team if we get our head out of our butt and play better.

If I was a betting man, I'd bet on them being in Detroit.

I'd hate to have to play against it. That is two great running backs. They could do a lot of things together. That would be scary.

I do like his cerebral approach to the game. That's why we blend so well. I also like that he gets on people's a---- because I do that too. But it seems that his mind is constantly going.

I do like his cerebral approach to the game,

I'd never heard it before. But it's perfect for all walks of life.

He brings all the things you look for in a head coach. He is prepared, he is focused, he obviously wants to win and he has a plan. He is going to be successful and get done what he wants done with or without you. That I do like. He holds everybody accountable and he is not afraid to tell someone that they are messing up. Everyone has to be accountable and know their role and take care of their job and be focused and be intense.

All in all, when you pressure a quarterback and when you get hits on him and take him out of a rhythm, it's tough for him to get going and their offense to get going.