Marc Bulger Quotations

We know what he meant to the organization. He deserves all the praise and accolades he gets. He won the Super Bowl and all that. But we're so busy right now trying to beat them, that we have plenty of time to pat him on the back in the offseason.

We want to run the ball more, ... Earlier in the year we didn't have that luxury because we were behind.

When he has that adrenaline going, he's tough to bring down. You give him a little bit of a crease, his legs are so big and he's so strong that he's tough to bring down.

When I had the Miami (injury), I was able to go back in. But I knew after this one (against the Colts), I was unable to continue. But hopefully we'll get some good news . . . and they can shoot some crazy stuff in there, and I can come back sooner. Maybe. We'll see.

Obviously you're happy they're struggling and we know we can do some things. But we know better than that. They're not that kind of defense, the one that is 31st-ranked. It's still early in the season and stats really don't mean anything. We respect them enough that we are not going to take them for granted.

I was supposed to take three or four weeks off,

I'd assume three quarters. In the third game, you usually get your most playing time, especially in a short week. You don't want to have to play much on Friday.

I don't think we've been consistent, that's what the pre-season is for. At times, we've looked pretty good.

I don't think we've been consistent, that's what the preseason is for ... At times, we've looked pretty good.

If it was my left shoulder, like I said last year, it wouldn't be an issue. But since it's my throwing shoulder, it's kind of tough.

We treated this like a regular-season game. Whether they did or not, who knows?

For me personally, this is as happy as I've been going into the year,

He was real meticulous in everything he did with the offense. He wanted it done his way. It's a credit to him, those years they had here setting all the NFL records.

He definitely hunted me down like that. But it's football. I could've easily avoided him and ran away. But those things happen.

He knows what he's doing. He's been around for a while now. He kept checking the ball down three or four times, I knew he was going to go over the linebackers one of these times. He was just baiting them. That's Kurt.

I think Brandon thought he was going to go backside (with the pass), and he didn't.

I think there's all kinds of degrees. How far the joint separates and things like that. But fortunately, we took X-rays right off the bat, and there's no bone break or anything like that.

Sure it worked. We played with more of a sense of urgency. I know the message he was trying to get across, and he did it well. He went at us hard on Wednesday and Thursday, but I think we understood. Guys picked up their game. He knocked some sense into us, and hopefully we can maintain it.

Look around the NFL. Victories are hard to come by. Things aren't always going to look good.

I wish you guys would ask me that during camp, how my arm feels. I throw 1,000 times in the morning and 1,000 in the afternoon.

It feels good. Obviously, I'm just throwing. I'm not getting hit. It's not sore.

I think him having to watch a game on TV, you should put a camera on that because that should be something to see.

It all looks good right now on paper. We should be scoring a lot of points. But we have to go out and get it done.

It did surprise me to hear that, ... I really thought and still think he could be developed into a very good quarterback. When I went to see Nick at the end of the year, I told him the same thing.

That was the pivotal play of the game, a huge play. We could have been down 17-0 and it might have been ugly from there.

Which is good. So it's just swelling in the joint. Some fluid. So I don't think it'll be quite as bad as last year.

We need to have Steven in this game a whole lot more. When the D-line can tee off, it makes it awfully tough on our linemen, and they're dropping eight guys and it's tough for our guys to get open.

We have the luxury of having four really good receivers when we are in our quad package, ... At the same time, since Isaac is going to be down, Dane (Looker) can step in and play the fourth receiver, but Kevin, like I said after the game, could start for most teams. And there are different things that Kevin does better than Isaac, but at the same time, there are a lot of things that Isaac brings to our team that we will miss, route-running and blocking and just being that leader out there. So, we'll miss him if he can't go, but Kevin, he knows what he's doing.

We're not playing as good as we can right now, ... And if we keep this up, we'll be in the basement, and Seattle will be winning it.

This year we can get into our three- and four-receiver sets and really get in depth with them. We have 20 or 30 specific things for them, and I'm sure it will be even larger by the time we get to the opener against the (San Francisco) 49ers.

There are a lot of things that Isaac brings to our team that we'll miss: route-running, blocking, just being that leader out there. So, we'll miss him if he can't go. But Kevin knows what he's doing. ... There are different things that Kevin does better than Isaac.

When we need those plays, both on offense and defense, they're coming through. We needed Marshall to come through for us on the last drive, and he did. We needed the defense to stop those guys and they did. It's nice to know we can rely on each other this year. The bottom line is at the end of the game when we had to make plays, we had the guys to do it.

We moved it between the 20s pretty well. We probably didn't score as many points as we wanted. That's just how the game was going.

We feel we should be 3-1, ... Even 4-0 if you play good. But that's just the way the league's been this year. There's only a couple of undefeated teams. ... We know we can come back. It's not the end of the world. But as the season goes on, each one of these losses becomes more critical.

We did a good job of fighting back, but when you are down by two or three touchdowns at the end, that is when you have to start winging it and hope for the best, ... Unfortunately, when you get down that much and our running game wasn't going real well, it's what you have to do.

Even if we would've won (against San Francisco), there's pressure every week to win. We had to back into the playoffs a little bit last year, and we don't want to get in that situation again. Fortunately, Arizona and Seattle stumbled last week, just like us. If we win, we can get back to .500.

There's a couple games that Mike gets pretty fired up for. And this is certainly one of them. I think this goes way back with him. And Isaac and guys that have been here (several) years understand that.

You want it to be more balanced. You're not going to win many games in the NFL throwing it 60 or 70 times. It might work in high school and sometimes in college, but in the NFL you've got to have a running game.

You want it to be more balanced, ... You're not going to win many games in the NFL throwing it 60 or 70 times. It might work in high school and sometimes in college, but in the NFL you've got to have a running game.

They should put him in the Hall of Fame already, the first active player, ... Hes like Superman out there, Im just glad hes on our side.

It wasn't too bad in the playoffs because the cortisone was working, but that started to wear off, ... And after the Atlanta (playoff) game - I took a pretty good beating down there.

It was sort of a wakeup call. It gave us a little spark that we didn't have. I can't say how much that turned the game.

It's a combination of a lot of things. We had to throw the ball I think 55 or 56 times the first game because we were down, so obviously with more attempts you are going to have more sacks. Obviously we throw the ball down the field far. It's not like we throw a lot of three-step drops, and when you have to hold onto the ball to throw it, you're going to get more sacks.

It might work in high school and sometimes in college, but in the NFL you've got to have a running game.

Football is football so it's not completely new.

It started off with a bad throw and it got worse. I was getting blocked, I got hit, and nothing happened there, and then I think once I hit the ground is when it happened. I'll have to see the replay. I don't if once he jumped on top of me that's when it happened, but it wasn't the hit, it was the ground.

It just got hit with a face mask early in the first half, ... It's not even an issue during the regular season, but probably contributed to me not playing in the final (exhibition) game.

It's nice to have someone out there like Cameron to pick up. He showed he can make big catches. He knows what he's doing. He's a smart player.

It's sort of a new route we were working on, and I probably thought through the read too much. I had three or four keys on it, and on three of the four I was right on.

Everybody's pretty solid, everybody's pretty healthy, and we're ready to roll.

Not saying Isaac is slow, ... But Kevin is special, and we can take advantage of it.

It was pretty apparent the last month or two that this day was going to come. I think it's better for Coach Martz and for the organization that it happened quicker, for him to find another job and for the team to find a replacement.

It's really not one of those things that aches or hurts when you're not doing anything,

So at the worst-case scenario, it'll be this week and next week.

I'm going to come back as quick as possible. Obviously, the bye week is going to help.

I'm 100 percent. That's the easy way to say it, ... The rest of the year I'll be 100 percent as long as I'm playing.

I'm sure it's clean. I didn't give myself up. He made a block and finished it. It doesn't happen if I don't throw the interception. So that's the frustrating part.

If you can't deal with it, you're in the wrong business. At the end of the day, five years from now, they're not going to look back and say you were 6-10 because you had all those things going on. They're just going to say you were 6-10. When you're on the field and not making plays, it has nothing to do with what's going on upstairs.

If you just play two or three series, you can't get a real good feel for the game. Playing a half gave you that feel, and we made our corrections.

I didn't even put two and two together. Maybe I should.

He said he'd already had it done, ... I thought it was a little more complicated and serious.

He said that eventually there could be some arthritis. I think he told me Jim Edmonds (of the baseball Cardinals), and some other guys had some surgery - they just take a little bit of your collarbone off. It's not a big deal, but that's not something you can prevent. But from the MRI and the X-rays, everything's stable right now.

He said that eventually there could be some arthritis, ... I think he told me Jim Edmonds (of the baseball Cardinals), and some other guys had some surgery - they just take a little bit of your collarbone off. It's not a big deal, but that's not something you can prevent. But from the MRI and the X-rays, everything's stable right now.

I definitely made a bad throw, and things definitely got worse as the play went on.

I don't mind it but we're getting grief from the linemen.I think the red was more manly to them. You know, bright gold, whatever. It will pass.

All I know in the NFL is coach Martz calling plays. I think Steve's been with him long enough to know his philosophies. He's taught him a lot about offense, so I'm sure Steve has picked that up and he'll try his best to call like he's learned from coach Martz.

All I know in the NFL is coach Martz calling plays, ... I think Steve's been with him long enough to know his philosophies. He's taught him a lot about offense, so I'm sure Steve has picked that up and he'll try his best to call like he's learned from coach Martz.

You've got to go with Torry, but once they get going, maybe the second hundred (yards), Kevin would win,

The Giants do so many things that can present a problem for us if we don't know what we're doing, ... At the same time, they might confuse themselves sometimes. So if we can stay with our rules, stay basic, we might get some shots in there.

Whether it's in the playoffs or not, you have to keep proving yourself.

It's very rare that you just get stuck with the ball. You're going to get somebody open.

For a long time, I was more involved in basketball, baseball and golf. My parents didn't push me into football when I was a little kid, but they coaxed me into trying it as a 10th grader.

When you're battling for a job, you know that every day you've got to perform.

I was always able to throw-it's not something I consciously worked on.

It was just something normal in my family to play sports. It wasn't necessarily forced on us. It was just something we enjoyed.

Half is not enough protection, half is my fault and half is them just doing a good job. I know it's 150 percent, but I'm a little tired now.