Marvin Lewis Quotations

We're making plays, ... but we have to protect the football.

We're beginning to see the change. I'm excited to see it on Sunday, for it to be our home field advantage and to be back the way it ought to be when we play at Paul Brown Stadium, no matter who we play. ... It's an exciting week for the city.

I don't care what happens tomorrow afternoon. We aren't going back to where we were. Those days are over.

I can't give you the exact definition of what a fast start is. That's the thing, we get to define that, ... We get to write the script to what a fast start is. I can't tell you right now what that script says.

He's been playing his tail off all year.

He wasn't one of our better players at this point. If you're not a starter, you have to have another role and that's the biggest thing, I think.

He was productive here and he's been productive as I've seen him in Green Bay. We wanted to make sure he was in physical condition to handle it. He really impressed me, actually, with what he did out here on the field. We put him through his paces pretty good, as you would think.

Our guys responded, adjusted, and responded. Interesting enough, I talked to our guys all week about expanding their roles, and we had some guys expand their roles today.

We have to win football games. I don't think Carson has to do anything different. The rest of us have to keep playing and coaching better. He's so, so talented. As I keep saying from the day he walked in here, the guy, no matter what he touches, he can turn it to gold.

We are not off to a good start. We just won one football game. We have a chance to write the script on what a good start is. We play Minnesota next week, and now that is our focus.

We didn't tackle, ... We didn't block. We didn't cover and we didn't punt. . . . I think the eye-opening thing and the lesson learned was that we were going against a very good football team. . . . If we want to go where we want to go, we have to go out and play against football teams like the Philadelphia Eagles and respond to those challenges.

We're going to use this, ... It's a lesson learned. It's on tape. It doesn't count for anything, but it's there. We didn't play well enough anywhere. I'm not discouraged.

There's no flow when you drop passes, ... T.J. has dropped a ball every game. Chad dropped a ball.

I've not seen (many) teams that ever have one guy cover one guy anyway, so it really doesn't matter. As much as he moves around and we move around and he's left and right, it doesn't matter. It's not even relevant. So thus, I guess there really is no list. See? How about that? I solved it. I solved it, so you don't have to ask any more questions about it. ... There is no list because it's not relevant, just a figment of the imagination.

No question, there's something for momentum week to week. Not many teams have gone to the Super Bowl without that.

They've added guys who have played at a very high level.

It wasn't his best effort. He will play better. He was hobbling a little bit, but that's part of football. He's one of our guys who we expect to play better. He's one of our leaders and best players. So we're counting on Levi, just like we're counting on (right tackle) Willie (Anderson).

Taylor made a lot of yards on missed tackles.

They can't wait to call each other after the game on their cell phones to see who did what.

In both cases, we have had good conversations with representation for both guys. Within the next two, three weeks, we hope to have discussion from their point of view back and see where things are. As we get closer to free agency, both sides have the opportunity to explore their options further.

I'm happy with where we are. We're in a situation where we don't have a void anywhere in players. We continue to cycle through the players from old to young. We continue with the development of our guys and go through it that way.

I hear him now making corrections to the other guys, ... Those are steps you have to take along the way. He holds them to their jobs and responsibilities.

I don't pay attention to any numbers. Numbers are not how you play football. We made a decision to keep Craig. Casey did a good job. It was a very very close call, and we kept Craig.

I don't pay attention to any numbers, ... Numbers are not how you play football. We made a decision to keep Craig. Casey did a good job. It was a very, very close call, and we kept Craig.

You've got to go do what you're supposed to do. The good thing that we accomplished tonight was taking care of the football.

The coaches are doing a good job of coaching him, and he's doing a good job of absorbing it and keeping it going. As long as he does what he's supposed to do, we'll have a chance to be successful on offense.