18 Quotes by Keith Newman

We've still got to be prepared, go out there and put on the best show we can put on. It is a national TV game, so you want to get embarrassed on national TV, then you don't prepare yourself. You want to look like something on national TV, then you go out there and you do the same thing you've been doing for, say, the last seven, eight, nine weeks when we were making this run.

My goal is to get a job where I can do both such as with a magazine specializing in photography and articles on motorcycles and four-wheel drive vehicles. Both would be something I love.

I have a role. I go out there and try to execute my role on Sundays. If that role expands, it expands. If it doesn't, it doesn't.

Hopefully we can build on what we did.

I think you may be able to take advantage of the fact that he is a rookie. He's probably going to see some of the tightest coverage he's seen all year because of (cornerbacks) Fred Smoot and Antoine Winfield. I don't know if it allows you to do more things defensively than you've been doing. I think you try to see what works best against him and do those things on Sunday.

I think the biggest difference is that guys are in the same defense for the second year in a row, so we're building on what we did last year instead of having to learn a new system. Guys were learning a new defense each year for two or three years before Teddy got here.

Our No. 1 goal is to win the division, and that's still probable. But we need to turn things around ASAP. There's a lot of games left. But week by week, the season is getting shorter.

Those guys made plays, and that's what we picked them up for.

We had an excellent preseason, but the regular season is the real deal. Yesterday just didn't happen for us. You're going to have days like that in the NFL. I just hope there aren't too many of them.