Rosevelt Colvin Quotations

We knew what was at stake when we stepped out on the field. Guys were flying around making plays.

Lucky we're in the bye week, ... because if we continue to play like that, we'd be 3-4 next week. It's ridiculous to go out there and play like that.

I don't think it matters that we were Super Bowl champions; we always have to come to a game and line up and play. Every team is good. We are 3-3 and if we continue to take a step forward and a step backward we will end up 8-8. . . . The bottom line is we are not doing the things we need to do. People aren't making their tackles, staying in their gaps.

Guys are flying around and making plays. Guys are playing better, and that gives you the confidence to be aggressive.

You have to focus on taking care of your responsibility and doing your job and then once things have really been decided and settled, then you can look at what has happened.

I think it made a difference in what kind of game plan we had and what style of offense they ran,

Regardless of who's on the field, the guys are required to perform at a high level. So, regardless if it's Richard or if it's a rookie, you're expected to get the job done.

Regardless, if we said it 10 times a 1,000 times, if Rodney's out there or if Rodney's not out there, whoever's out there -- 11 guys -- we play team defense,

It didn't throw us off. We've seen plenty of quarterbacks just like him.

I think just being able to practice and perform together has helped us these past few weeks.

You'll see a shadow pass overhead, you'll find a feather beside my bed.

We have an opportunity to look at the film tomorrow and try to improve on that. We got another tough opponent (the Falcons in Atlanta) coming up next week. We don't have much time. We got to improve and we got improve real fast.

We didn't need to add all that drama to that game,

Eric's a good guy. You would wish him the best, but not in New York. If he's with the Jets and a division rival of ours, you hope he loses every single game. His track record speaks for itself and if you have an opportunity to move forward as an individual and for your family, you have to take advantage of it.

Everything wasn't in place to where it needed to be. Since then, this stretch of six, seven, eight ballgames, guys have tried to focus and do their job a little bit better.

There's nowhere to go but up from how we performed. This is not how we've performed around here the past couple of years. We've got a tough challenge ahead of us this coming week, we've got to get ready, and we've got to get better.

People tend to talk about the 3-4 and 4-3 like it's two totally different entities, and it's not, ... A defense is a defense, no matter if this guy has that gap and that guy has this gap. Somebody's an end, and somebody's a linebacker, regardless who you put in there. I'll be dropping and rushing, whether we're in a 3-4 defense or a 4-3. That's one thing that factored in my decision to come here. I'm going to get the opportunity to rush the passer, because that's what I love to do.

Once you stop the run you get teams in third-and-long, you can tee off because you know the quarterback is going to be back there.

Anytime Michael Vick's not in the game, you're not going to be upset. But that kid's got a strong and accurate arm.

Anytime Michael Vick's not in the game, you're not going to be upset, ... But that kid's got a strong and accurate arm.

As a defense, you stop the run and then you try to get off the field on third down and limit his amount of plays.

As a defensive team you want to get off the field. They were able to come up with the plays and the schemes -- whatever it was -- we weren't doing, they did it and they came up with a victory.

The bottom line is, we are not doing the things we need to do. People aren't making their tackles, staying in their gaps. Now, we have two weeks to start playing football the way we know how to.

They have a lot of confidence in their running game. It's up to us to bring that confidence to a level of normalcy. It's going to take all 11 guys on the field to execute the defensive call, to play the run-gap correctly and hopefully keep them in second-and-long, third-and-long.

They had those three big shots and they take a lot of the air out of you.

They had the three big shots. It takes a lot of air out of you.

It's not Rodney lining up out there and making plays by himself. Everybody has to come together and everybody has to be in position to make play when they have the opportunity.

It's frustrating that the result of it is what it is. You've got to play better than that. The situation is the season's over, done, finished. Look forward to next year.

It's great to have him back out there moving around and doing things. Hopefully, he can continue to progress. It's great to have him on the practice field. To have him on the game field would be even better.

You think about it, and it makes you sick. But there's nothing you can do about it.

The best thing that we can do for ourselves is take care of Miami and then move on to whatever's after that.

They came out and did what they wanted to do from the first play on. You can't play defense like that.

Any time you have Randy Moss in the lineup you have a chance to go 50, 60, 70 yards in one play.

If you go out there and get flat-out beat, then something's got to change. We've got a lot of work to do.

Hopefully that's not a trend you want to continue to do because if you go win, loss, win, loss then you go 8-8 and your chances of making the playoffs aren't great,

The game was sort of how our season went. We played well one part of the game, we'd play bad the next part of the game.

The dude's a special player. He's everything you'd want as a player and a teammate.