Mike Sherman Year Quotations

Certainly, last year walking off that field after the Atlanta game was one of the low points of my coaching career. It was nice to win this football game. That simple.

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.

He seems to understand that this is a big year for him. And I think he wants to do something about that.

I was fairly encouraged for the first time this year - there's no thrill in losing and there's no moral victories by any stretch of the imagination in the National Football League - but I saw some things out of the team. I thought they battled, I thought they competed, they fought and did the things that winners are supposed to do from an effort standpoint.

They're the catalyst to the defense because they're so active, so disruptive. There aren't a whole lot of holes there. They've certainly drafted well and had good guys in backup roles. That's the biggest difference between this year and a couple years ago when they played with the same four guys.

He's in much better shape. We know we can count on him. Last year he got hurt and the weight was a factor . . . I believe. We know we can depend on him this year. He's come back and been very accountable and that's very good. He looks like a player.