Mike Briggs Quotations

But we said to them, 'OK, they scored 25. Now, we'll have to score 26.'

You know, I'm going to have to check that guy's lineage to see if he's related to Michael Vick.

We've been focusing on our punt return team trying to block punts. We've blocked three punts before this game and returned two for touchdowns, so that's been a team that's been effective for us.

We've been focusing on our punt return team trying to block punts, ... We've blocked three punts before this game and returned two for touchdowns, so that's been a team that's been effective for us.

The running balances us out a little more. We wanted to come in and throw the ball with Andrew, and having a freshman running back on the varsity that can produce.

A lot of times we sit there and watch film with the kids and we try to talk to them about at least once finding the perfect play. I haven't watched the film, but that could have been close to the perfect play where everybody did what they were supposed to do.

They're all linemen, and they get the least amount of publicity. But they've all stayed in our program and worked hard for four years.

That's part of the reason we appreciate Naperville so much, ... Certainly as a family -- because we have seen some of the other areas.

That first quarter was bad -- we haven't played a quarter like that over here in a long, long time, and that made me mad,

I've been wondering whether or not we could pull out a close one, and we did. I hate the fact that we had an early lead and then let them back into the game, but we did what we had to do to win. Special teams hurt us, and special teams helped us right there at the end.