Jack Rio Game Quotations

I think in an ideal world, you would first of all not have the injury at all. Secondly, if you had that opportunity to come back and play a couple of weeks prior to going into such a big game that would be ideal. But it doesn't always have to be ideal. You adjust and adapt.

We can strengthen ourselves to be a team that's resting on Wild Card weekend and earning a home playoff game to advance. If you do that, that's a significant step toward the ultimate goal of winning a world championship. It doesn't guarantee anything, but to me, that's next on the wish list.

When you're plus-five on the turnover ratio, it shouldn't be that close. For us to be that close at the end of the game was a direct result of not finishing in the red zone with touchdowns. ... We want to be stronger and punch it in down there.

We don't anticipate playing our starting players for long. The two major keys to this game is to complete the evaluation process and to get our team to the opener healthy.

We want to win any game we compete in. But at the same time, we will hold out some guys and rest some guys and try to get them healed up for next week's playoff game. We'll be smart about how much we play certain people. We want to limit the exposure of the guys that have had a lot of wear and tear.

We had a series of events in that third quarter that turned a real good game into a game they pulled away from.

I'm not discouraged at all. We could be more efficient with how we ran the ball and blocked and executed the run game. But I was proud of how we were able to stay with the run game and control the game as much as we did.