Mike Sherman Playing Quotations

He's coming off a very, very severe injury. He's farther ahead physically, as far as playing through it, than I thought he would be, ... You consider it was less than a year ago that he was laying on the field at Lambeau, and we were wondering whether he can play again. There's a lot of things involved there.

We took shots down the field, but they have to be open shots, ... When they're playing your vertical routes, it gets tough. You can't force balls. When you force balls, you have interceptions. We sent vertical guys down field. Missing a player like Walker, there will always be a what-if. But we still should have been able to win this game.

I thought Aaron did better today, I thought he managed the game well. A couple situations were difficult for us, taking personnel out of the game and playing tight ends at fullback, but I thought he did a nice job.

We have a long way to go. The penalty situation is inexcusable, and that comes back to me, as I told the players, but I put it on them right now because we have to get that worked out. That will not work this season if we have that many penalties. Playing stupid like that does not bode well.

The only concern I have is how is he playing right now, and he's playing pretty good. So, I feel good about that.

Not playing him a lot allows this injury to heal even more.