Keith Newman Quotations

We added some consultants, but it boils down to players executing the game plan the coaches put in place.

I think you may be able to take advantage of the fact that he is a rookie. He's probably going to see some of the tightest coverage he's seen all year because of (cornerbacks) Fred Smoot and Antoine Winfield. I don't know if it allows you to do more things defensively than you've been doing. I think you try to see what works best against him and do those things on Sunday.

Our No. 1 goal is to win the division, and that's still probable. But we need to turn things around ASAP. There's a lot of games left. But week by week, the season is getting shorter.

Those guys made plays, and that's what we picked them up for.

Defensively, I think we've got to get off to a better start than what we have. I think we've got to go out there and set the tone early in the game.

With some of our resource exports, especially in energy, we are managing to single-handedly put a crimp in our manufacturing industries because of the lack of thought and strategizing about the best interests of Canada.

You don't know what a guy does when you go home or what he does at night. As long as a guy is coming focused and ready to play football this week, that's all I'm concerned about. You're going to have some adversity, but I'm focused right now on the Chicago Bears, and how to get this football team turned around.

We had an excellent preseason, but the regular season is the real deal. Yesterday just didn't happen for us. You're going to have days like that in the NFL. I just hope there aren't too many of them.

I have a role. I go out there and try to execute my role on Sundays. If that role expands, it expands. If it doesn't, it doesn't.

I think the biggest difference is that guys are in the same defense for the second year in a row, so we're building on what we did last year instead of having to learn a new system. Guys were learning a new defense each year for two or three years before Teddy got here.