Tiki Barber Game Quotations

He doesn't want to carry the ball, ... He got knocked out last week and came up after the game and said: 'That's why I never want to carry the ball. I'm too slow and I can't get out of the way.'

He did great. He had a phenomenal game.

I think we believe it. I don't think there's a doubt in our minds. But as always in this game you have to prove it, not only to people who are watching, but also to yourself.

We knew coming into this one it was the biggest game of our season. We needed this one. We didn't play great. It wasn't always pretty. But we did enough. Our defense held together.

This game is about momentum. Washington has the momentum and a deep-seated desire, and they have a purpose. It showed in how they played today. They played with a different level of intensity, and we didn't match that.

They played with a different level of intensity, and we didn't match that. This game was for the season to them, and they came to play.

It's a crosstown rival. It's Jets -Giants, like Mets-Yankees. It's a big game. But mostly it's a big game for us because the starters will play well into the third quarter and it'll be a measuring stick to see where we are as a team.

Do I think guys are going to come out and try to hurt him? That's not the way the NFL works. You play hard and you do the best you can regardless of the opponent. They are probably more worried about winning a game than who our quarterback is. I'm sure he is going to hear boos, but I'm going to hear boos. That is the perils of playing on the road. He's a big boy, he can handle it.

It was his first game as a full-time starter for us. We have a lot of talent around him, a lot of veteran players. He doesn't need to be Joe Montana right now. He has time to develop into that. As long as we play well around him, I think he'll continue to develop and be the great quarterback we expect him to be.

That's encouraging, ... but no solace. The bottom line is we lost this game and we should have won.