Chuck Long Guys Quotations

We want to tailor our offense to our personnel. We have good running backs, and we want to feature those guys, as you saw today. I thought those guys stood out. The running backs did a nice job.

With everything being done on a first-and-10 basis, we just really wanted to see what guys could do operating in space. I thought there were good efforts on both sides of the football. Our offense started fast, but our defense came out after halftime and played very well.

We all worked hard in camp, but when you get in games, it's a little different. We're not going to beat our guys up. We were all part of this deal. We'll watch tape tomorrow (Sunday) and see what happens. The big thing we told the guys was they had to stay together ... we're just going to roll our sleeves up and work. We have some growing pains right now.

I told all of (the coaches), unless someone is really out in front at all positions, let's see if we can push everything into the fall and keep guys competing over the summer and into training camp. But if there's anyone they feel strongly about, we'll talk about it and go from there.

You can slice it every way you want, but we're young and starting over. I thought these guys had a little growth.