Mike Wahle Quotations

We ran better, we threw better, we blocked better. We just played a better game this week.

Scoring three points and giving up eight sacks wasn't going to get the job done. As an offense, we were excited to come here and get another shot at these guys. We felt we were better than we showed last time.

On offense, we were excited about the chance to come back.

I don't know what he's been eating for breakfast, but we need to keep feeding it to him because he's making some great cuts, hitting the holes hard and running through the extra man. We're going to need more of the same.

I don't care. I really don't care. You've got to earn respect, so we'll try to go out there and earn it on Sunday.

I'd be lying to you if I said that didn't have an effect on us. We're not a team that says that kind of stuff and gives people things to think about. We're just glad we came out and answered the call today.

I have a picture of Brett Favre in my mind, and it's always going to be the same.

Historically, it's been a tough place for us, we're all aware of that. We've got to come back and show something next week if we want to go to the post-season.

He's good every game. He makes moves that I've never seen other players make.

That was probably one of the most amazing performances I've ever been around, no doubt. It's still tough to talk about. Looking back, I don't know if I could do that. What he was going through, his mindset, and how close he was to his father and the rest of his family.

We couldn't run the football and that's a recipe for disaster for this football team. We need to run the football effectively and that helps to get Steve Smith in the game. It's like if we can't do one, we can't really do the other, unfortunately.

We've played in a lot of loud places. I've heard this place is especially loud, and with this scenario I'm sure it's going to be ear-splitting. But there's always ways to quiet down the crowd, and we want to get to that point. Certainly, we'll have to use every tool at our disposal.

We did a lot better job scheme-wise. The last time the protections were not built in to account for the extra guy they brought down. This time they were built in. If we didn't pick it up we had a tight end or safety do it. We were a lot more prepared.

The thing about Brett is he is such a talent and such a competitor that he is going to do everything within the framework of an offense -- and sometimes out of it -- to win a game, especially on a Monday night. I can't remember the last time he had a bad Monday night game. You are going to have to force him to have a bad game in the national spotlight.

Actually, this place has been great. Lambeau is not that loud, this place is louder.

You're never safe - No. 4 can do some amazing things back there. I've seen him do it many times.

There's a lot of guys in this locker room who haven't won the whole thing before, me being one of them. I know how rare these opportunities are and you really have to take advantage of them. Jordan Gross , on the other hand, he thinks it's a damn walk in the park. It's his second one in three years. He thinks there's nothing to it.

They proved that today. They beat us soundly. We were never in a position to take that football game.

They play that Tampa-2 that's not really Cover-2, where they bring safeties down.

It's just discipline and some of the things we talked about at the beginning of the year. But I really wish you wouldn't have brought it up because we don't like to talk about it too much. You know, I don't want to jinx us.

They did a heck of a job getting off the ball on us. They were beating us off the line. When you do that and you have speed rushers coming off the line, you really don't have much of a chance. We have one-on-one battles we have win and we also have to put ourselves in situations were they can't pin their ears back.

I'll tell you what, this was probably the longest week of my career.

You can point to that. You can point to the fact that we weren't able to run or get the ball to Steve Smith. That's a recipe for disaster for this football team. We need to run the football effectively, and that helps get Steve open. It's like we can't do one unless we do the other, unfortunately.