Jack Rio Quotations

We're going to keep him out this week, then hopefully get him back as quick as we can, ... This is not a season-ending injury by any means.

Unless coach Marshall just decides to start calling things that he's always wanted to call, I would suspect that that they would be very similar to what they've been. I just doubt that a team would invest that much time in preparation, and then throw it out and try to get some new things in one week's time. The logical thing would be to assume that they're going to proceed as if Ray were there.

We were at a disadvantage in the first half. I'm not going to stand here and say that was a reason we didn't play well.

We'll be in teal the rest of the year. I just thought that a team coming out of the Northwest, why not put them in their dark uniforms?

The people in the NFL know how hard it is to win in this league.

What we do from here is what is most important.

Let me answer that with the words from the hit Steely Dan song 'Do it Again,' ... You go back, Jack, do it again. Wheel turnin' 'round and 'round. You go back, Jack, do it again.

So it was a valuable time for us.

Oh yeah, life goes on, long after the thrill of livin' is gone, ... Oh yeah, say life goes on ... Oh, sorry. I got lost in the moment there. That's a great song, and Mellencamp had a name as cool as mine back when he was know simply as 'John Cougar.'

My good friend wouldn't want to do that.

If we gain an edge with them having to battle in the dark uniforms, then we'll do that for the opener. I just thought that a team coming out of the northwest, why not put them in their dark colors?

I don't have anything to report other than he was awake, alert, still conscious.

I don't have anything to report. I understand he was involved in auto accident. From everything I heard, he'll be fine.

I give him an A. It's a bottom-line business. David found a way to get a win. He did a nice job for us.

If Byron doesn't have any setbacks, he's our starting quarterback.

Fred is getting better, it's week to week, but he's not going to make it this week. We both agreed that it would be best to give it a little more time. We are expecting him back this season.

Fred held up well and had some really nice runs. He really did a nice job running the ball.

From '03 to '04 there was improvement, from '04 to this year there was more improvement.

He's had a great offseason. He's worked his butt off. ... I think he's more excited about the offense and how he's being utilized, and it's just all added up to a much more productive offseason. Our anticipation is he's going to be a fine football player for us.

He went through all the (minicamps), and just a few weeks ago he was out here running plays. .... It's always a coaches preference to have everybody for the full time, but it doesn't always work that way, and we feel confident that we'll pick up with what (he's) missed and catch him up.

He had a monster night. I'm not sure how it happened and why it happened, but it was a problem in the game. Any time a guy gets that many sacks, it's a problem.

When he's healthy enough to play, he's going to play. So what I want to see is whether or not he's healthy enough to play.

He's been the one consistent scoring threat that we have had thus far. We need to find a few more.

He's a tough guy. He told me, he told the fellas he would be here and he showed up. That is a tough man and I want to acknowledge that.

He's a very physical guy. We'll miss some of that physicality,

He's been what we hoped for as a pass rusher,

Hopefully, the people back in Jacksonville are pretty happy about that Christmas present we just gave them.

I would think it would be out of character for a guy who has been a successful coach for as long as he has. It almost sounds desperate.

I think it's a great situation to be in. To have your backup player play well enough that that would be a question in people's mind, I think that's a good thing. It means a backup player came in and helped you win, which is a good thing.

It can be an emotional rollercoaster during a ballgame, but we wanted to be a team that continued to play through ups and downs, ... (Mathis) made a great read, made a great break, caught the ball -- and not many people in the league are going to be able to catch him.

It appears he was a victim of heat and dehydration.

I think the draft is deeper than 27 players. I think there will be several players that will have a chance to help our football team become stronger.

I think we're right there with a clump of teams that are on the verge.

I think that certainly we'll be excited when we're able to generate more offense, put points on the board. We remain confident that we're right on track and we're going to be much improved.

I think that's the right thing to see on an early September day.

I think we're in a situation right now with our football team where we're not going into the draft with a glaring hole, or a glaring need that we must address. I think we're going in now, probably more so than any time that we've been together in Jacksonville, where we can go in and just select the best player and fill some depth on our football team that may emerge as a starter some day. In some cases, they'll have a hard time making our team, because it's a stronger team than we've had.

I will determine who is going to play and who is going to play how much, those types of decisions. I'm going to watch, look, evaluate, determine and I'm going to do what I think is in the best interest of this organization, this football team and make sure I give our team a chance to be as successful as possible.

I will look at all of that. We'll have a plan as the week unfolds. We'll work through that, exactly how we want to play, who we want to play, how much we want to play and be able to go out there and do the best we can Sunday and be ready to work the next weekend.

Jimmy looks really quick. He's a full step faster than he was last year, if not more than that.

Jimmy is one of the better vertical wide receivers in the game. He's always had a knack for getting behind guys and making big plays. He got off to a good start.

Jimmy is one of the better vertical wide receivers in the game, ... He's always had a knack for getting behind guys and making big plays.

Jimmy has been a special player for a long time. We felt like he deserved that opportunity. We got him his yards, and we were able to get him out of there.

Jimmy came in and did a fabulous job. He had some one-on-one routes, and he was able to win on those routes. He had a huge day.

Over the last 10 years, Mike has been a major contributor to some very productive offenses. Mike brings toughness, experience and passion. He will certainly be a tremendous asset to me and our offensive staff as we continue our pursuit of a championship.

My thinking is we have two young quarterbacks that have been taking all the reps that are getting better. They represent the future for the Jaguars.

Like last year, we have a very challenging start to the season with three of the first four games against playoff teams. We are especially pleased to have two Monday night home games.

Like I say all of the time, you get what you earn in this league,

I think overall, ... they're just playing outstanding up front.

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.

I think Fred continues to be a great player. I think the bigger the running lanes are, the better he's going to look and feel. He's fought through some things. He's not the same guy who came out of Florida. We're continuing to get him more room by blocking so he can do his thing.

We do. We're optimistic that we'll get him back for the playoffs. We want to rest him this week. They want to re-examine the hand next week and have a better indication of whether we'll get him or not, but we remain optimistic that we'll get him back.

We don't ever feel like we want to go into a draft and, particularly early in the draft, go after need. I think that's something you look at more on the second day, if you haven't been able to have it line up the way you'd like it to the first day.

We're a good football team. We're capable of beating anybody when we're playing good football.

We've got some big, strong men in that locker room. The key for us was not to blink.

We've done a lot of things with him. He's intelligent. He's been able to handle a lot of different assignments and make very few mistakes.

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.

Three points is not enough to win. You are not going to win very many games doing that. We are disappointed with our output. We played hard and took away some of the things they wanted to do, but in the end it wasn't enough to win.

Three points is not enough to win. You are not going to win many games doing that.

We anticipate in having him. I'm just trying to be as accurate as possible (about the injury). We're far more optimistic than we were two weeks ago.

We don't have any say-so over the schedule. This was certainly the best team we've seen in a while.

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 are going to take our 24 hours and enjoy this, make our corrections and move on.

We're not going to be a team that gives up a lot of sacks. We have given up too many in these first two games and we'll look to address that. We're not looking for this to be a trend, that's for sure.

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.

When one of our guys puts himself out there,

We would have liked to have had a much better showing in front of the nation. Fortunately this was a preseason game, and we have time to work on some of our mistakes.

We said we think he has some special abilities and we are going to utilize them. I would say expect anything from us. That is how we are going to approach it.

We think this draft is deeper than 27 players. We think we can get a good and talented player there, who can come in and help us.

We've built it from three years. They don't give a young coach a team chock-full of talent. We had a lot of work to do when we got here and it's starting to pay off.

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.

We had to have a defensive stop. We were one play away from getting the ball back.

This year he'll have the ability, the freedom, to change the play at the line to get himself out of trouble,

We try to add as many good football players as we can, coach them up to play to the best of their ability and give us a better chance to compete.

With Jerome, he's been doing it a long time. He's been a great player for a long, long time and looked really good Monday night. We understand what he brings. Parker just brings some juice. This guy is fast. That really jumps out at you.

We see him as a guy who's played well, has started, so he has experience, has speed and can help us on (special) teams. We'll let him grow into a role.

We are very happy to get big John extended. He has been a monster in the middle for us. He is central to us in our effort to build a dominant defense and a championship team.

Doctors determined (surgery) was necessary, that rest was not going to make it better. It's a simple procedure to allow him to get back in a few weeks without the continuing pain.

Andy Heck is an outstanding young football coach who has been a part of our club the last two seasons. He has an excellent working knowledge of our system and our personnel.

There's nothing frustrating about this win for me, ... we just beat a good football team.

Our defensive coaches loved Brian's physical style. He has good size and he has played a lot of man-to-man coverage, which will enable us to open up the blitz. Mike Tice confirmed what we saw as we studied this player, and he spoke highly of Brian's quality character.

Our defensive coaches loved Brian's physical style. He has good size, and he has played a lot of man-to-man coverage, which will enable us to open up the blitz. Mike Tice confirmed what we saw as we studied this player, and he spoke highly of Brian's quality character.

Offensively, we sputtered a little bit. But we had a nice special teams play.

Sometimes, if you don't fit properly on defense, you're going to have plays go against you. And there are sometimes some pretty good players on the other team. Vick is a heck of a player.

The bottom line is, I'll continue to play the best 11. Realistically, I thought Byron did a nice job.

That's what you pay these guys for to hit the quarterback.

This is obviously a big win in a big game. We've earned our 4-2 record. I'm real proud of our guys.

They're world champs. They've got a tough group that is battled-tested and understands what it takes to win. They're rounding into shape.

You don't want to get to where you're begging for a call at the end of the game. In the end, they got it done and we didn't.

There were a lot of things to look at that weren't very good. They all added up to a loss.

There were times last year where he'd come off and he'd be so frustrated because we sent him in with a play he knew would fail and he couldn't get out of it. This year he'll have the ability to get out of it.

There were some things that were outstanding. That plus-five turnover ratio will win.

It's extraordinary to think how far Mike Pearson has come.

It was a very big win versus a very good team. I'm very happy that our two big weapons showed up tonight.

It raises a flag if you see a low score. But I think you continue to work and investigate and evaluate whether or not that person is meeting the criteria you've set for that particular position.

It's more punishment than I care to watch him take. I'd like to see him being protected better and I'd like to see the ball come out of his hands quicker and I'd like to see him get hit a whole lot less.

It just depends. Certainly, in order to get a guy enough touches, you have to let him get going. There are some backs that can go in and spot-play and give you a jolt, then there are some backs that need to play in order to get in a rhythm and get themselves going. You have to really identify which kind of guys you have.

It's hard to win three games in a row on the road.

David is doing fine, it'll just be a matter of how quickly he can get back.

David played a really good game. He's done a good job while Byron's been down.