Brad Hopkins Quotations

We're not an offense that can get everything back in one chunk. When you have an offense like that, you are relying on patience. Sometimes maturity is something that allows patience to happen. They weren't forcing us into doing anything we didn't want to do, but regardless the penalties and the mistakes we were making were negating any flow of momentum we had.

So many people put so much emphasis on the Pittsburgh game,

I was so anxious. It was just a little anxiety. I was ready to go. I was just being stupid. I was probably a little rusty.

I am in year 13. There is no spring chicken in this guy right here, and I understand the nature of the game. I understand it is a young man's game. It is just a matter of whether they want to go with the young guys. Maybe they let me ride off into the sunset.

He had a lot of grass stains on the back of his pants. That is because he was getting first downs and sliding. It was good to see him run around.

He doesn't just spin, he spins with velocity. Dude can snap ankles.

He's a disruptive force. But it's one of those things where you go into it knowing. You expect a challenge, and you have to be up for it.

To me, that would almost be like Bud Adams owning the Chiefs, you know what I mean? I imagine them putting him out to pasture here.

We lost a lot of talent. Shoot, two of our most talented guys played against us. But the guys we have filling those spots are ready to answer the bell.

You got to take the good with the bad and we have to take the stupid, little silly stuff that we continue to do. We're just four games into this.

To be in a backup role, where I'm not sure if or when I am going to play, I have never done that. I am not sure that would work for me.

They are all bright young men and real hustlers.

This by no means clears the slate. We're 1-1. We wanted to be 2-0. We have a lot of improving to do. We have 14 games left and we want to take advantage of every opportunity we have.

Absolutely everyone can improve, and the veterans especially, in setting that kind of precedent that we don't make those little mistakes, that we don't fumble the ball, that we don't get unnecessary penalties. We kind of try to set a higher standard for everybody where the team benefits more. We can all do that.

It was a team protection. We did a good job as far as what could have happened. We've seen him against other teams being very disruptive.

It's obviously very hard for them to score points if their offense isn't on the field. We know our defense is up for the challenge.

It's almost habitual. When the guys are watching other players who have been there, you kind of pick up the sense of where you are supposed to be and what you're supposed to do and all those good things.

They walk down that wall down there that has all the Super Bowl memorabilia on it and they have no idea who the people are.

That security didn't respond before Antonio Davis responded? I mean this guy was playing a game. His attention and focus should be on the game. If he feels his wife is in enough danger, where he has to go out in the audience, why wouldn't security see that? To me, it's inexcusable.

In talking to him, he loves the right. But put it this way: We've all been put in situation where we've had to learn.

If I feel my family is in danger, if I feel that they need my assistance in some sense, what Antonio Davis did, to me, it was not even a second thought.

For them to come over here with that kind of swagger that we know they have, it made it especially good for us to come out of here with a win the way we did it,

This is a great time for the bye week. It will be good for people's bodies to heal and to get a little mental refreshment.