Brian Dawkins Game Quotations

No year is a cakewalk. Last year, we just steamrolled through people. Every game is not going to be like that.

We can go out and win every game. We talked about winning; it starts with the first game. We have another tough game coming up and I see no reason why we can't win that one.

We talked about winning out. It starts with the first game, and we won today. We have another tough game coming up next Monday (Seattle) and I see no reason why we can't win that one.

We take it day to day. Who knows what will happen any time - now, next week, before Game 5?

Winning does something to you. It releases something in you, it's confidence and you get that nasty taste of losing out of your mouth. You get that losing mentality out of your system. That first game is going to be critical. Once we get that first game, hopefully it will be this week, we can start doing what we need to do for the rest of the season.

We definitely expect when he gets in a game for him to make a play. We expect those things from him now.

We just have to understand that that?s not who we are, ... Who we are is a team that?s usually into the game in the fourth quarter.

We were focused on what was at hand ... this season, this game here. It's kind of hard to look ahead sometimes and try to see the light, but that was the light. The light was we lost last year in the Super Bowl, and we're trying to get back there. ... We're all pushing for that same goal.

That game is over with. We have to get on with the rest of the season.

You're definitely going to have fans who hold their breath if we get to that point again, ... Because we've been in the NFC Championship Game two years in a row. Hopefully we can get past it this time.

There were a lot of things. We were not able to get that consistent pressure that we wanted to get; teams have been doing different things against us and we have not made plays either. We have made mental mistakes and I think it got to a point where we were trying to do things instead of letting the game come to us. We were trying to step up and make a play and then we gave up a play.

It's nothing that's going to get me out of my game. My game is a certain way all the time. It's not going to make me try to hit you any harder, because I'm going to do that anyway. I took it as him being who he is, and he feels like he can make a play at any given time.

It's hard to say, ... Some of them are blown assignments. Mental mistakes. When that happens as a defense, we're all beaten. Not just that one person. We have to start running our defensive game plan to perfection. Right now, we're not doing that.

That's something special, to have the type of quarterback that Donovan is and to have the type or receiver that Terrell is. For those guys to keep hooking up game after game, and to go into every game knowing that is potentially a touchdown waiting to happen at any given point, as a defensive player you love that. I'm definitely excited for those guys and the way they've been able to click.

I don't know if a short week ever helps you when you play a physical sport like football. But I have the confidence the guys will do what it takes to get their legs back, to get the bumps out, and will come out this next game swinging. That's all you can do come back and come out swinging.

For some people, it might not make a difference, but any time you have a job to do, you want to be the best and succeed at that job. You don't just chalk it up and say that winning or losing this game does not make a difference. I don't see us doing that.

All you can do is deal with what the facts are right now. The facts are that this is the last game of the season. The facts are that there were a lot of injuries. The facts are that this is nowhere close to the season that we wanted to have.

A Monday night game does give you a different vibe.