LaMont Jordan Quotations

We're considered a high-powered offense. Last time I checked, high-powered offenses don't get held to (20) points.

Let's just call it what it is: We came out flat. We're not going to the playoffs. It's the first time all year I can say that.

One magazine had me finishing with 975 yards,

My contract doesn't say I'm that kind of runner,

I was so concerned with trying to make the big run that I didn't nitpick to get the three or four yards. That's something I have to work on.

I would hate for us to sit here at the end of the year and say we were the most underachieving team in the NFL because if we don't make it to the playoffs, we will be the most underachieving team in the league. And quite frankly, it will be an embarrassment.

If we get that touchdown, we win the game.

I'm always going to come off the field feeling like if we don't do well running the ball that it's my fault. That's just it. The team trusts me with the ball in my hands and to go out and make plays, and it's my job to go out there and make plays.

For me to be a starting running back in the NFL and somebody says that I could play 16 games, but I won't get 1,000 yards, for me I look at it as a slap in the face. That's one of those slaps where I say, 'OK, you can slap me once. But at the end of the season, I want to make sure I'm hitting you back with a powerful punch.'

I think it's enough talking now. We've done enough talking. Talking doesn't get you wins. Almost winning does not get you wins. So what we have to do now is step up, be held accountable, realize that we're professional athletes, we have a job to do and we have to go out there and do it. That's what it comes down to.

I will forever look at it as teams saying we can't run the ball, ... I encourage defenses to play that way. If you play two-deep defense against us with the way we're capable of running the ball ... we are going to run the ball down your throat. I think today was a true test of that.

Like I say every week when we lose, we move the ball up and down the field on teams, but we just can't finish the drives because we end up beating ourselves.

We've done enough talking. What we have to do now is step up, be held accountable, realize we're professional athletes, that we have a job to do, and we have to go out there and do it,

We beat two teams that people expected us to beat. Now, next week, that's when we're going to find out about the identity of this Oakland Raiders team.

We beat two teams that people expected us to beat, ... Now, next week, that's when we're going to find out about the identity of this Oakland Raiders team.

The expectations that everybody had for us coming into this year and the expectations we had for ourselves, we came nowhere close to meeting those expectations. Some people might disagree with me, but we did underachieve this year. ... Our defense has played well enough for us to be in the playoffs right now. There's no doubt about that. Offensively, we've done nothing but let our defense down and let our team down. What we have to do is come back and reload.

When you get on top of a team, you have to finish them off. I guarantee you that a team like the Patriots or Colts, if they got out in front like we did, they probably would have put up 40 or 50 points and held them, and it wouldn't have even been a game. If we want to be considered an elite team, when we've got a team down like that, we've got to finish them early.

You can't come out against the Super Bowl champion New England Patriots and make that many penalties, ... They won't beat themselves. Granted, they lost two coordinators, but they haven't changed.

We had a third-and-long situation, and we are getting off the field when we get a roughing the passer ... and we get an illegal hands down the field,

We just keep getting penalty after penalty. ... If we can minimize those things, then I don't see a team out there that can stop us. That's why I say it's really all about us.

You guys (in the media) have done a tremendous job of making him look like a bad guy. But I've been most impressed by Randy. I didn't know what to expect because I didn't know him. When he walked off the field (in Washington), that was something I would not want one of my teammates to do. But I also don't know what the situation was in Minnesota. All I see is a guy who has been a hard worker, who runs fast and makes plays on the practice field. He shows a lot of emotion on the field; he seems to be all about winning. He doesn't come across as an outcast. He doesn't come across in a negative way.

I've learned that it's one thing for a young player to have somebody like that in front of him. It's another thing for you to have the maturity to sit back and actually learn and not be selfish. I had it right away, because I understood my situation.

Are we going to get out of this hole and get back to being the team that people expect us to be? Or are we going to continue to dig deep and come Week 9 or 10, we're making plans for the holidays? I don't plan on doing that.

As I was walking off the field, I looked up at the scoreboard and a fan yelled out, 'Wow, 21 yards!' And I looked and saw we only had 21 yards rushing. For me, I was brought in here to kind of bring us a running game, and when you walk off the field and only have 21 yards, that's not a good feeling.

As I was walking off the field and looked up at the scoreboard, a fan yelled out, 'Wow ... 21 yards,'

It's a role I've been waiting for four years.

It's at the point now where if I walk away from the game and I don't have 20 carries, I can't really feel an embarrassment like I did against Philly. I know the more I get the ball, the better that I do.

It's the best I've felt after a game, that's for sure. It's a good feeling getting a victory. I'm nowhere near as beat up as I was last week, and I feel pretty good that I can walk off the field and leave the stadium with a smile on my face.

That's something I'm not used to. Coming from New York, one of the least-penalized teams, I learned: Penalties hurt you.

That's one thing I'm not used to coming from New York. I got news for the rest of the league. That team (the Patriots) is not changing. If the league thinks that team is changing because it lost two coordinators, it isn't. They minimize mistakes. That's something we've got to do.

It lets you know about the character of your football team,

I'm not going to judge a guy based on how he's portrayed in the media. I'm going to judge this man based on him.' And Randy ... he's been phenomenal.

In order to win in the NFL, you have to be able to run the ball, ... I think it's very obvious that we can pretty much throw the ball against everybody we play. It's just up to us now (to get) our run game going.

I have said it before, 23 to 26 carries and I've gotten the job done. And if you look at our record, 1-4, our one victory was 26 for 126. To win games in the NFL you have to run the ball.

In that locker room, if you were in there, you got a sense of how the team was hurt. You get a sense that we are not giving up, and that's something big. I think that is something the fans really need to know ? that we might have lost this game and things aren't looking too bright for us right now, but we're not giving up and that's just pretty much the mind-set of the team right now.

Honestly, I kept telling myself it was something that wouldn't hold Curtis (Martin) out. I think the fact the ground (at the Coliseum) was so soft I could run on the side of my foot. So it was just one of those things.

I don't think the guy should be looked at as an outcast or be looked at in a negative way because of some personal things that might have happened,

I think the media has done a good job portraying him being a bad person, when in reality he's not.

The true test is how are we going to do against our next opponent? Are we going to go back to how we were when we were 0-3?