36 Quotes by Trent Green

I think it's important to play. No. 1, that's what my dad would want me to do, just like last week he would have wanted me to play. It would be good for my family to try to get back to some normalcy and hopefully provide a little bit of escape while the game's going on for all of them.

I think the first half was a lot more manageable, even though it was raining harder and the wind was blowing harder. But as the field was torn up, with the ball resting in the mud every time you could get the snap, there was pretty much mud kicked on the ball so it made a big difference in the second half.

I think (Black and Bober) did well, ... But when you get that kind of lead, you want to start pounding the ball... . Most of our passing was play-action. That took a lot of pressure off those guys.

I think everybody feels real comfortable with where we are.

Our biggest thing is we can't fall behind early like we did. We can't become predictable on offense. Where we have had effectiveness over the last four or five years is when we can mix up the run and the pass. When we are effective running the ball then we can get our play-action going. We can get our drop-back going. We keep defenses on their heels and keep them off-balance because they don't know where we're coming.

I'm sick to my stomach. No missed field goal cost us this game. We had many opportunities to win. That's the disappointing part.

We know it's going to be a tough game. They've had a lot of success in home openers over the last decade, and we know we're going to get their best.

We called more play action with Willie out. That slowed down their rush a little bit. But Black did a good job.

We weren't really happy about it. But we did our job. We focused, and we have to be happy about that. The team took a positive approach.