Marty Hammond Quotations

(Jenkins) had some foot problems, and he'll be the first one to tell you he didn't have a good camp. We didn't have the luxury of keeping him around longer. It's just bad timing, and it's unfortunate. I really didn't get a good look at him.

Like our first game last week, hopefully they're going to have some first game things happen to them, because I think it pretty much happens to everybody. We're just happy to be home and ready to get started here.

I think everybody respects them, and they know it's going to be a different game than last time. I don't think it's a trap game. I did mention to the guys in practice that they can't start feeling too good about themselves.

We needed to get another center in here. Now we have two proven centers in (Antoine) Murphy and Lacey. He practiced (Wednesday) morning. He looks good.

It's just a big rolling billboard. I can print my name on the side but everybody already knows me or doesn't care. So I got to thinking, if we can put something on there we might as well have these sayings on there.

I'm on call one weekend out of every month. Whenever any law enforcement agency needs help, they'll call Crisis Intervention. We do everything from counseling victims to providing help that is beyond what law enforcement does, like stranded motorists who are out of gas. We give them 10 gallons and send them down the road. Sometimes we'll get people a hotel room, especially people who have lost their homes and the Red Cross hasn't been able to respond yet. Whatever we can do to help.

He's very quick and he's a very good athlete. We'll just try to keep everything in front of us in the secondary. If we can come up and make tackles on hitches, that's OK. We just don't want to give up the big play. If we can play our assignments the way we're supposed to, we should keep him bottled up.

I felt we played poorly the entire game, and Birmingham made us pay for it in the second half, that's for sure. We've got a long ways to go. We just have to keep getting better each week.