Roy Kirby Quotations

It's sort of like what people thought about us after the jamboree. People thought they might be off a little bit, but then they jump up and beat Shelby.

That play was my fault. We ran a defense that we had run the last two or three years that shut them down. I guess I should have stayed in our base defense, because they only scored one more after that. I guess everybody learns a little something.

That's why we need to try to win a conference championship first. We've got to stay healthy. Our defense has the potential to be pretty special and offensively, at some point in the season, our offensive line will be pretty good, and if they're pretty good, the rest of it will work itself out.

I hadn't thought of that. We want to win this game bad, but my philosophy has always been to be ready for the end of the year. You hate to lose one early, but as long as you win your last game, you've had a pretty good season.

I think he's very deserving of it. He showed in his play at the Shrine Bowl that he can play with the best of the best, so he's definitely worthy of the Parade selection.

To shutout that offense says a lot about our defense.

We'll take that every week. If you can run, then you can go to play-action. We knew they'd have everyone up to play the run.

All we needed was to complete a couple of passes and settle down. I thought our offensive line improved 100 percent from last week. We're not there yet, but we took big strides. We finally had five of them together to practice together three days.

I'm always worried about them. I know they're coached well. Coach (Mike) Briggs is a good coach, and they have two former head coaches on that staff. They've got a couple of kids that the Shrine Bowl is looking at tailback and wide receiver, so you know they can put points on the board.