Keenan McCardell Quotations

When the lights come on you've got to play like you're young,

No doubt about it on Monday night everybody is watching. They want to see what you can do, see what kind of team you have. It's time to show the world.

Fortunately we have another opportunity to go out and get a good taste in our mouth. They say you're only as good as your last performance, and we've got one more performance to be good.

We've got to start getting these close games. To be the team that advances, to be where we want to be, we've got to be that team that wins tight games.

We've got to realize that first and foremost we've got to protect the quarterback.

Jon keeps speaking about how his offense needs some spark,

When you get No. 21 the ball, ... good things happen.

First (game), second (game), it doesn't matter. They all hurt.

There's no doubt because he has playoff experience. He'll come through for us.

It was very important coming off a loss like we did in Philly, where we felt like we controlled it, ... We had to show the league we could bounce back from something like that. And we did. It was great to start fast.

As a receiver you expect to be involved like that, regardless if Gates is there or not. With Gates not being there, everybody, not just me, realized that they had to step up and play bigger.

As a unit, sure, we knew what we were doing. We want to score (a touchdown) every time we step out on the field; we feel like we have to score. That's our mentality.

You've got to seal the envelope and put it in the mail. And we didn't seal the envelope.

You don't get many shots. When you do get them, you have to take advantage.

There's a sense of urgency. The season starts to get shorter and shorter. We have got to come with it.

It's all about winning right now. It's not about what Keenan does; it's about what the Chargers do.

It was huge, ... That was a do-or-die win for us. Everyone was expecting us to be the hot team coming out of the box because we were the hot team at the end of the year.

I remember it clearly, it was a cut-off block, and seriously, it wasn't meant to be that way. It happened. It's my job to cut him and I did. There wasn't a flag. Even when they look at, it's not illegal. It's a cut-off block.

I play for hardware. I want to help this team win. If it takes me to contribute like this, I will. At the end of the year, if you go out and have a big year it doesn't mean anything if you're not in the playoffs, if you're not winning a championship.

He's a guy who has a passion and wants to help his team however he can. If he has to tear a guy's head off, that's what he'll do.

I am very excited, not because it was their first loss, it was because we are still in this hunt for the playoffs. This was a must win for us and we have to continue to win to get in.

The first one I was real close. You've got to give Henry a lot of credit. He fought it all the way down till we were on the ground. I had it and he stuck his hand in between. He made a good play. He waited till the last minute to stick his hand through there and he got it.