Bill Cowher Ready Quotations

Joey's been looking good the last couple of days. He's not ready to play the whole game. But, based on what I've seen the last few days, he'll start.

It's kind of good to get back to football. I think that is what we are all kind of looking forward to now. The fun and games are over with now, and it's getting ourselves ready to play the game.

I know a couple of times our players were ready to celebrate prematurely.

It is an unexcused absence. I'm very disappointed in his decision and we are ready to move on with or without him.

It is an unexcused absence, ... I'm very disappointed in his decision and we are ready to move on with or without him.

It's become more of a production. It's a big production. It was big back then. I don't know, it's a big to-do. But they still have to play a football game when it's kicked off. At that point, we've got to be ready to play football.

We're going to be very proactive, make sure if there's any problems to get them taken care of now because we want him ready to go for the first game.

He's been looking pretty good the last couple of days. He's not ready to play a whole game and James will certainly spell him at times.

Duce is working this week, hopefully he'll be ready by Sunday, but he is not ready to carry the load and he hasn't really practiced even through training camp,

The good thing is, Jerome's walking around; he's up on his toes, ... I say there's an outside chance (he'll be ready for the opener).

We only threw it 11 times. It's not like we've suddenly arrived, I don't think. Too much comparison has been made to (the preseason). I'm not concerned with that. I'm not ready to sit there and say everything is set with one game ... For the first time this year we looked like a professional team throwing the football.