Mike Shanahan Game Quotations

He's been more consistent throughout training camp. I told Charlie before the Arizona game that he was going to be our starting third wide receiver and to get ready to play.

I sat down with him, I said, 'You don't go to a game with (an obscenity) written on the back of your shirt,'

I think Plummer was frustrated. Obviously when you throw interceptions, you're frustrated. That's part of the game and you've got to try to overcome those mistakes.

You know what Mike Anderson is. It doesn't take a regular-season game to tell you that Mike has been playing pretty good. . . . I'm pleased with the way he's come back and rebounded after a serious injury. I like the way he handles himself.

We are playing the best rush defense in the National Football League, so I hope we have that problem. You always want your players to achieve goals, but I don't think that is a game plan going in. We are just trying to play it as it comes on.

When you are 0-6 and you havent won a game out there, it is a great challenge for our football team, ... It is not with the same team, but it never is.

When you have four starters out of the game as we do, you have to have everybody else playing. If you did play your second unit, who would play special teams?

They've allowed 2.9 yards (rushing) per game in the second half of the season. That's unprecedented. You always want to play your best going into the playoffs, and that's what they've been doing.

The way they controlled the tempo of the game ... once you did have the ball, you had to try to take advantage of it. They did a good job stopping us defensively in the first half. They just played better and coached better than we did.

You're hoping a guy performs better than that, ... He's been pretty consistent in practice ... You always hope a guy is going to step up and do it in a game like they do in practice, but he hasn't done that yet.

I'm not really sure yet. We'll get a better feel before the game and decide how many plays he can play.

He's feeling pretty good, so we'll decide at game time exactly what direction we're going to go,

He said that he could have played a game today.

It's all about making decisions. We can't keep everybody . . . so you like to see how they react in a game situation, when the lights are on. The goal is that they make it hard.

It will be a game time decision, ... We'll get a chance to stretch it out a little bit and see what he can do.

I am not sure how anybody treats a regular-season game like an exhibition game.

I am not sure how anybody treats a regular-season game like an exhibition game. The big difference is that when you play your last pre-season game, there are 65 players on your team. You have a chance to play your second unit.