Jon Gruden Start Quotations

I already said we're going to do all we can. You have to understand what the playing field is. With no extension in place, what are the dimensions of the field that we are playing on? So I can't really speculate or comment further than we will, hopefully, find out what the playing field is and I will assure everyone that we will do everything we can to keep those two guys here. Once again, it is a difficult time. A lot of us are uneasy. Some of us are uneasy to start with.

We're proud of these young guys and hopefully this is just the start for them,

Those are the games that you dream about as a quarterback. His dad won many games like that, bringing those Giants from behind, and this is a great start for Chris Simms .

Will has done some good things, ... That's a real competitive call for us as far as who is going to be the starter. It was a valuable opportunity for Will Allen to get to the start and play extensively. He's another young guy we're counting on.

He's an exciteable type of guy. He needs to cool it out a little to start the game and have a little bit more poise and confidence in his footwork, his timing and his decision making. He's rushing things early in his stints.

You can't start games like that. It has been a real problem.

You can't start games like that. We've had a real problem with that around here. We played good, solid defense the last 20 minutes of the half.

It's so early, and I don't want to proclaim him as an answer to all our problems, ... But he's off to the kind of start we needed him to have. ... You make first downs, you eat up clock, you score touchdowns, you keep your quarterback in third-down-and-operable situations and the play-action pass is going to be that much better with (Williams) in there.

There were a lot of young guys that stepped up and made big plays. What a great beginning for those guys. Hopefully, it's the start of some thing big for them.

There were business issues among the family. Hopefully, he can start with a fresh slate.

I don't want to inflate his start or deflate his start. In my lifetime in the NFL, he's the best back I've ever coached.