Patrick Kerney Quotations

Mike wants to be that much more lethal by making himself a great throwing quarterback,

I have a girlfriend now, and she's down with the program, ... But before we hooked up, if I had a date with someone, I'd eat dinner beforehand, then order something light on the date, like a salmon fillet, so she wouldn't think I was a total pig.

He certainly was making some incredible passes today. When you hit a guy square on his shirt and he's still hitting the receiver, it's frustrating.

His name was getting announced all the time over the loudspeaker. He was going sideline to sideline making plays, making vicious hits. Every time I watched the Ravens after that, I couldn't help but watch him.

Rod's as deserving as any player in the league. He's the one player who came in here and elevated our defense across the board.

Those guys, they work in a short space, so they're more quick-footed guys rather than having straight-out speed. But yeah, to be that big and still move and change direction the way they do, that's what makes them special. Otherwise, every 340-pound man in American would come out to play football.

We have a lot of guys on this defense who play with a passion, so adding another one is great. The more the merrier. He's got such a positive approach. He not only tells us we're going to win, he tells the other team we're going to win. He loves to run his mouth. I do a little of that myself, but he does it even more. He plays with a supreme confidence.

We finally got the gang back together. It was important for us to play together for a little bit leading into the regular season. We were practicing all week together as a unit, and I think that was good for us. We're looking to raise it up another level heading into next week.

We didn't do a good job getting to the quarterback. It's our responsibility to get there in three or four seconds. We can't put that much pressure on our defensive backs.

We definitely still have something to prove on the road, because we've not played nearly as well on the road as we have at home, ... We've got to rise up and challenge ourselves to play better on the road.

We don't care about back-to-back winning seasons. Going 9-7 isn't good enough. Last year, we were two wins short of where we wanted to be.

When I was going into the last year of my first contract and you see him and other people chasing him, I said, 'You know what? I'm going to stay here. I'm going to stay on his side,'

When you have a performance like that, people might say, 'Uh-oh. Maybe that's our defense. Maybe what's happened up to this point has been a fluke,' ... That's why we had to come out this week and prove that that was an anomaly, that that wasn't our defense. We came out here and showed that today. We showed the way we can play against a great offense.

I've played a lot of right end in my career and you have to be ready when a guy goes down. There are no excuses. You have to be able to make adjustments as a player and as a team.

Coach (Jim) Mora told us he didn't know we are. He was right. It was not a representative effort of what we pride ourselves in as a team.

He's the best tackle in the game, hands down. The thing that makes him better than anyone else is that he isn't just a great pass blocker. You've got to bring your A-game against his run blocking, too. He's everything you look for in a tackle.

It's a matter of getting to play even more aggressively than I have in the past, which is fun,

The hardest thing about getting to Brady is his quick release. We wanted to pressure him, but you can't sack the quarterback when he doesn't have the ball. He did a good job of getting rid of it.

It's always been an honor to play with that guy.

It ought to make camp a little easier, at least from a logistics standpoint. We just have to make sure we don't let our concentration stray and think about that pool too much.

It's sort of shocking, really. Going 9-7 and not making the playoffs doesn't really interest me, but we still want to win next week. We can still have a say in what happens in the NFL.