Andy Reid Run Quotations

I expect them to step up and do a nice job. I always tell them that you just focus in on your fundamentals and until you get the feel of it, you focus in on that football, run the routes the right way and you will be fine.

I expect them to do a nice job. If you focus in on the football and run the routes the right way, you'll be fine.

He did a nice job for it being his first time getting a number of reps. There are some things he can continue to work on in the run game, getting to know how we do things up front. He ran hard, played hard and did some nice things that you probably wouldn't expect him to do after just playing two weeks here.

He was in a little bit of pain and I don't know if that affected the decision to run or to not run. It didn't look like there was a lot of room to run in the first place. But that other part might have entered into it a little bit.

I thought about it, yes. There was a point where he was hurting after he took a hit. He tried to run and he took a hit. So I thought about it.

The ability to run route after route after route, he can't do that.

We probably could have run a little bit more, period. We didn't have a lot of success early with it and then when we got behind, it snowballed from there.

Once the groin becomes an issue, then the recovery is not going to take place and rest is not going to help it. It is just too much discomfort to where Donovan can't run and function.

I never got the feeling like he was trying to do too much, ... If it's not there, and you have to go, you go. I'm never going to tell him to stop running. I'm not going to tell him 'You run too much,' because he has a great feel for the offense. He's very patient with it and he lets things happen.

He's the full package. He can play the run and the pass effectively and he can play outside and inside in pass-rush situations, which makes him very valuable.

The groin's being affected, ... They told us once the groin's become an issue, then recovery is not going to take place and rest isn't going to help it. There's just too much discomfort to where Donovan can't run and function. We're to that point.