Phillip Daniels Quotations

He knows me. I'm his teacher. I taught him everything he knows.

I feel pretty good. I've still got a few more days, but I don't feel any pain. With a tape job, I should be okay. I don't want to miss this game.

But that's how it is in this league. You can't leave it up to the officials to make those kinds of calls because they're human, too. They're going to make mistakes. The official thought he got in, so he got in. We've just got to make up for it when we go back.

He may have been in the best shape possible. Who knows what happened? It's a sad story: A guy who goes out and plays hard during the game. . . .

We just have to go out there and play our game and not worry about who we are facing. We just have to be solid up front, stay in our gaps and do all the little things, tackling. All those things are pretty big. We played him pretty well last time.

People kept saying it was a fluke that first game. I think we showed today it was no fluke.

Our chances went up. But they have good coaches, and they adjusted.

I thought we were right back in it after we got the kickoff back. But we had a lot of chances in this game that we let slip.

We were going to get him, but Bubba saved him, so he better thank Bubba for saving him. We were close to the Gatorade cooler, but we weren't able to get him. But I think he should have been dumped. It was a big game for him. You know, getting into the playoffs. But we'll get him at the Super Bowl.

We have trust in both quarterbacks. We just go with coach's decision. Coach Gibbs knows what's best for this team, and we just deal with it. We can't let that be a distraction for this team.

We had a lot to gain from winning that game,

We got confused a little bit. One of our linebackers should be to the right. We didn't respond very well.

We've got find someone to complement Santana. Once we put it all together, there's going to be some great things here for the Redskins.

Bad luck, that's what it seems like to me, man. We play hard and work on it and get them in practice all the time; it's just not happening in the games.

I needed one more. I wished I could get one more. This was just a big day, the biggest of my career. It was a matter of going out and playing without fear. My teammates, being where they needed to be, stepped up a whole lot, too. This was just a big game. We needed it.

I love hearing all the know-it-alls say that we couldn't do it. Some of those guys might need to be fired.

I'm not really worried about this because I know we'll respond next game and step up. We knew they were going to make some plays, but the little things we did to hurt ourselves, we've got to eliminate those and we'll be fine.

The blitz is designed to get there and when it doesn't get there, you're in trouble. Teams adjust on that.

It's sad to see because he has battled through his injuries and did some good things in the preseason,

I live for games like this. You dream about playing in games like this, win-or-die-type games. Coach will have us ready. We just have to go do it.

He's one of the nicest coaches I've played for. He's a man that will go to battle and protect your back. He's one of those guys who always wants to know what the players think and wants to make sure we're OK. ... You don't hardly ever get a coach who wants to know how the players feel. Half of them don't care. They just want to win.

They've had our number the last few years. They kept saying the first game was a fluke. Now you know. It wasn't a fluke.

They weren't max-protecting like they did the first game. Everyone was just so focused. I've never had a four-sack game in my life. Not high school, college, pickup, whatever.

It was loud, man. It was the loudest I've heard, and I played here. This crowd, they were loud. It felt like a lot bigger crowd than what it was. They did what they needed to do to help their team and help them win.

It keeps the defense intact and going in the right direction and with him and hopefully the other coaches staying, we'll keep this thing going. It's a late Christmas present for all of us.

The kid did pretty well, ... but he seemed rattled toward the end.

This means a lot to our city. You saw how many of our fans were at the game. It's time for this city to be exposed to the playoffs.

There was no enthusiasm ... We just seemed like a bunch of guys like a deer in the headlights, a lot of guys just wondering who is going to make the plays instead of going out and making the play. That's how it was to me. Whoever is on the field first is going to set the tone, and we can't let the other team go down the field and get a long run and set the tone early in the game.

We saw that play all week and just didn't play it well in the game. We had several guys that could have turned that play inside and it probably wouldn't have been a touchdown. A couple of guys played the wrong side of the blocks.

We figured if we got in we could be a dangerous team. Well, we're in now.

It's good for the town, ... I was used to all the teams playing the same day in Chicago. It made it feel like a real sports town.

We know we should have won that game. But that doesn't mean we look at it as a revenge game. It means we think we should have won; and now, let's correct it.

Have we become a cupcake league? We already have better helmets and gear. Wonder how the old school players feel about this. Not in the back of minds when talking about 18 game season so let's play football please... Even guys using shoulders to hit are getting flagged for helmet-to-helmet. Defense is getting sloppy because guys are avoiding fines and will get worse if suspending comes into play.