Trent Green Quotations

Nine of the 11 guys have pretty much been together going on four years,

Nine of the 11 guys have pretty much been together going on four years. I think everybody feels real good where we are, ... I feel good with where the timing is.

No one was talking about it on the sidelines, you figured that was the direction it was going. About the middle of the fourth quarter I went up to someone on the sidelines, I heard Pittsburgh was up 14 with only a few minutes to go. I figured it was the way it was going to go.

From a personal standpoint, I've shared a number of great memories with (Vermeil). I've said this on numerous occasions: he's been in charge of three organizations as a professional coach in his career and on two of those occasions he chose me to be his starting quarterback. So, I feel a great deal towards him, a great deal of responsibility in St. Louis when I was brought into that situation and he told me what was needed. Even though I wasn't able to carry that over onto the field, I felt good about the direction going into that season. Coming here and having it explained what was expected of me and I tried to do all those things. That's what I told him when he got me to Kansas City.

We're playing really good football, but we're not in the playoffs and there's nothing we can do about it.

He was asking questions of everybody to see what everybody thought, what everybody's attitude was, ... No matter how that play ended up, that's where you have to send a message on a football team and I think that was great on his part to have the confidence in us.

I feel good with where the timing is.

We took that approach against the Jets. They were a team that was a field goal away from going to the AFC championship game. We felt real good about ourselves that week.

Just when we'd get something going, we'd get a dumb penalty. We'd get a nice run or big completion and then get a penalty. We just didn't help ourselves.

I think everybody feels real comfortable with where we are.

I'm sick to my stomach. No missed field goal cost us this game. We had many opportunities to win. That's the disappointing part.

I think the first half was a lot more manageable, even though it was raining harder and the wind was blowing harder. But as the field was torn up, with the ball resting in the mud every time you could get the snap, there was pretty much mud kicked on the ball so it made a big difference in the second half.

I think (Black and Bober) did well, ... But when you get that kind of lead, you want to start pounding the ball... . Most of our passing was play-action. That took a lot of pressure off those guys.

Our biggest thing is we can't fall behind early like we did. We can't become predictable on offense. Where we have had effectiveness over the last four or five years is when we can mix up the run and the pass. When we are effective running the ball then we can get our play-action going. We can get our drop-back going. We keep defenses on their heels and keep them off-balance because they don't know where we're coming.

I think it's important to play. No. 1, that's what my dad would want me to do, just like last week he would have wanted me to play. It would be good for my family to try to get back to some normalcy and hopefully provide a little bit of escape while the game's going on for all of them.

We know it's going to be a tough game. They've had a lot of success in home openers over the last decade, and we know we're going to get their best.

We called more play action with Willie out. That slowed down their rush a little bit. But Black did a good job.

With the quarterback situation like it is right now, we don't know what it's going to be from a backup standpoint. Then we scored on the first drive and were moving the ball and the one bad play. So we said, 'You know what? Everything's moving pretty good. Why take any chances?' I understand where coach is coming from.

The third preseason game is really kind of the focus point of when you want to hone in on your timing because everybody knows the fourth preseason game is where you're trying to have some success. But your also don't want anyone getting hurt before the opener.

That's my agenda anyway. I feel good about the progress I'm making.

That's going to be a great test for both sides,

That's going to be a great test for both sides, ... We take a lot of pride in our run game and they take a lot of pride in their run defense. So that's going to be kind of a marquee matchup in terms of how this game goes.

Initially, I said, 'This is the week they're going to let him play,'

Not that I ever relaxed, but it was nice to know he wasn't going to be breathing down my back side.

It was a different kind of pace for this offense, ... With the defense playing the way that it was and with a big lead, it was more of a grind-it-out attitude. That's not something we're accustomed to.

Any time you lose a 10-time Pro Bowler, it changes things a little bit.

Anytime you're in a game like this and you know it's going to be a grind-it-out, run oriented game, knowing the type of defense that they have and how good they are against the run, obviously give a lot of credit to the offensive line and running back Larry Johnson for that.

The last couple of years we've had to spread it out and throw the ball and try and (to) outscore opponents. But the way our defense played today, creating turnovers, I'll take that anytime.

It's crazy. I've never been involved with anything like this. You hear of one guy going down, or at the most, two. But to have three guys. Here it was a week ago and Quinn was on his couch. Now he's starting this week. It's a weird set of circumstances.

I don't know how good our chances are. But the fact remains we're still alive. Crazy things happen all the time.

As far as losing four in a row, I feel like we're a much different team. I think we have 15 new guys. We have a much different defense, a much-improved defense. We just have to find a way to step up and find a way to meet this challenge.

It's a great way to measure where we are at this point of the season,

That's the hard part for me is not knowing how it happened. I really haven't taken any sort of hits or uncomfortable twists or turns or anything like that that could have done it.

It was really bad. Especially in the second half, every snap there was pretty much mud caked all over the ball.

We weren't really happy about it. But we did our job. We focused, and we have to be happy about that. The team took a positive approach.

It may have been torn since then but recently tore more. We're not really sure but I'm completely fine. I stopped taking blood thinners recently and the doctors said I'll be fine. It was just a freak thing.

He ran such a good route, that when the back fell down I was just trying to put it on him so he could make a play. When a guy runs a route that well and fools a defense so well, it's nice to see.