Steve McKinney Quotations

Casey's a friend of mine. He comes down and works out at my Velocity some. We've had a chance to hang out a little bit and get to know each other. It was a fun battle. I always enjoy playing against him, and I always look forward to the challenge.

I think the protection schemes that we're calling are very sound,

I would never plant anything like that. I don't have $30,000 to throw away. ... It would have been a lot funnier if we'd have won.

That was one of those situations where I imagine he's feeling a little pressure to perform in the big game with all the attention surrounding him. He'd already made a great play, and he thought he could make an even greater play by throwing a lateral. But any coach will tell you that's not really a good play unless it works.

We're absolutely slammed and we don't have enough people to wait on all these tables. But everyone is upbeat and positive. We wanted to help, even if it's just a little bit. We can't even begin to make a dent in contributions, but if we can make some small difference, then that's great.

The protection has been good. If we can continue the way we've been doing and I'm positive we will then it's going to be a much better season as far as sack numbers.

We played a bit of musical chairs today, ... We thought we had the line set on Thursday, but when Zach went down, that put us in shuffle mode.

We've come a long way in the last couple of years to where we are at now, ... We've got a lot of talent. I feel good about things.

We were supposed to be contending for a playoff spot right now. Instead, we're contending for the No. 1 pick in the draft. Our fans are kind of frothing at the mouth over it.

The Texas defense did a really nice job of keeping him in check. We wouldn't expect him to run wild on them, but you see flashes of what he can do. He's got a game-breaker's mentality in that he believes he can score whenever he is in the open field.

The thing you notice about Domanick, like all great backs, when he's in there, he makes things happen. The line is blocking the same as they do with other backs, but for some reason when he's in there, you gain yards.

As bad a season as it's been for us, I don't know why we wanted to drag it out one more quarter. I guess that seems appropriate, huh, considering the way things have gone?

I like (Denver's) offense a lot. It thrives on running the football and establishing the run. They establish the pass off the run. As offensive linemen, that's a scheme you want to be in. It allows you to be physical and knock people around. It's not so much a finesse offense that tries to trick people.

I'm sure they're cheering in Houston. We've been hearing about the Reggie Bush pick for the last five or six weeks. A lot of our fans have been rooting for us to lose. I understand what they mean. Having the No. 1 pick in the draft gives them hope and optimism for next season.

If I were a fan, I'd be wanting the same thing. I hope we keep on winning and still have a shot at him.

I love it because it's all-you-can-eat meat for $44.50..

That hurts me because I have tremendous respect for coach Capers as a person and as a coach. He has such high character and moral fiber. He's just a good guy you want to play for.

In this league, you've got to run to win, but you've got to throw to score,

I help companies educate their employees; I help churches and companies educate their people, We went out and purchased equipment for them and helped them set up their own program.

So much can happen before now and then. Wherever he goes, he's going to be an outstanding football player.

You can't win by just running three yards at a time, hoping to bust one out.

It just got real interesting for sure. I was pretty much under the impression we were getting Reggie Bush. Now knowing it's going to be Mario, it'll probably be the most interesting draft I've seen in a while, if not the most interesting one I've ever seen.

It's not fun to be in this situation. We're all frustrated. Disgusted. Sick of it.

There's been quite a few customers saying they're happy about that. I know we are. We're happy to get that rolling.

It was emotional; it was difficult. I felt sorry for him.

We talked about it in the huddle right before that. We knew we were going to score.

I asked David once, 'What does it look like downfield?' ... And he said, 'Dude, they're covered.'