Wally Buono Quotations

We're hoping before Feb. 16 comes we can wrap this up.

We're starting with much better position defensively which gives our offense more opportunity.

I am getting other calls. There are a number of scenarios we would entertain.

He's playing two-thirds of every game. He takes a lot of pressure off those front guys.

Kicking was an area of concern and one way to address it is to get a guy with a proven track record.

We were very impressed with Jay as both a player and a person. He plays a very difficult position with skill and intelligence.

We played hard, we played with intensity, we flew around. Were we as sharp mentally? No. Our guys were in a fog. We won, despite ourselves. That's the mark of good team. We're not a great team yet.

We played hard but we didn't play smart. Chances are running out on us and those guys better understand that.

We have to raise our level of intensity. I think they'll understand. We have to respond and rebound.

We have to improve in all areas, we can't stay status quo,

We'd like more production out of a lot of things, our running game is one of them, ... You have to be careful you don't try to do what isn't there. You can try to run the ball 20 times but if you have very little production it doesn't help.

This resolves a big issue that we thought we would have to come to a conclusion on fairly quickly.

Too much is made of that single stat.

When you look at his credentials and what he's accomplished, it's tremendous.

When you look at why this team is 9-0, I don't think it's necessarily because the offense is that much better than it was last year, but I do believe the defense and special teams are better.

Everything we do from this day forward is about doing better.

The teams that finished at the low end of the totem pole, they'll get the impact players. If you're picking where we are, they're going to be gone.

A very tricky situation. Some of the salaries are at the point of being out of whack, really out of proportion.

They had the momentum at that time. Was it a good call or a bad call? I'm not going to say it was a great call, and I'm not going to criticize it.

It means a guy you might not have got, you'll get. Sometimes the quality of the draft is that fine that one pick higher makes a big, big difference.

Everybody has the same parameters. What we want to do is to maintain a salary structure that's fair and consistent for the football club.

That's something he has to re-earn. He did a great job for us in punting; as a field goal kicker he has to grow in that. We're going to bring in more competition, whether that's through the draft or looking at an import.

The addition of Paul definitely helps us address some concerns that we've had, and I believe his experience will add strength to our special teams.

I wanted to see improvement or we were going to make moves. I said I was not going to be patient with the veterans, the ones who didn't show enough improvement. It's part of why we're 9-0 and other teams aren't. We feel that we made better personnel decisions, for whatever reasons.

I hope we can play better than that. Sometimes the score is distorted. We did what we had to do. We came on the road, we got the win, we protected the quarterback. We did all those things, now we just have to keep it up and get back to work Monday.

If you're a coach and you want to win, you play like you want to win,

If you want to win, you make calls like that. If you worry about the consequences, you keep on losing.

He's a guy worth taking a risk in. We'll bring him in to see where he's at.

I am not confident that we can get it done before tonight. We want to pay Bobby fairly and according to his value on the team and his value compared to other players.

He added a lot of flair and excitement to our organization and we wish him the best.

You can't put a value on the confidence (Miles) gives the (Tony) Tillers and (Ryan) Philips and Sam Youngs.