Certainly I thought that was important for us. Particularly when you’ve got new receivers, you want to get in some kind of a groove there.

I don’t think you rule anything out when you go into a draft, especially if you think there’s someone there who you think you can go get. Would you be willing to trade or make...

in terms of personnel, or changing the technique, there are a couple of things you can do there. We shouldn’t have any blocked, and we’ve already had two. So it concerns us.

With the weekend, I figured I’d let the guys go home,

He has a bone bruise, plus he has a chip, which we cleaned out. We sat and talked to Brandon a long time. He is super important to us. We decided it was probably best...

I don’t like doing this. It wasn’t the plan I had going [into the season], but certainly, plans change and you do the best you can to deal with them.

[Free-agent defensive end Courtney Brown took a physical, which was expected to determine whether Washington would offer him a contract.] We’re [still] interested, … I don’t think there’s anything imminent.

You want to keep the ball, make first downs. You’re trying to give yourself a chance to run and, every now and then, mix in the pass. When you lose a football game, you can...

We looked at everything that happened in the preseason, … and let all of our players look at it and try to learn from it. We’re taking a different approach on some of those things...

That is my responsibility. Obviously, we want to be more productive than we were in the playoffs.

I am going to take a long, hard look at when we think we should start up.

There are different ways that people feel like it should be done. Any way that you can add a player — I don’t care if it’s a trade, the draft, free agency — I want...

[Redskins Coach Joe Gibbs expressed displeasure with the early bye when the schedule was released.] I think it’s a tough deal, … My preference would have been [to have the bye] maybe later, but, hey,...

He was a lot calmer and sure of himself. Ann Coulter is an extremist, and she would not even look at the other person’s side, but he looked at every topic he talked about from...

He has fantastic long-ball, and ball reactions, … Very few people can snatch a ball right out of the air like that quick. And then the other thing, he’s got a great burst, and when...

Everybody at this point of the year is missing some starters. They took the Giants to overtime (on Dec. 11, and lost 26-23) and that’s all you have to say.

The little guy fights his guts off, we really like him. We got some real tough decisions to make. Certainly he stood up tonight, he really played well. Those are the things we need to...

Hey, … please don’t give away plays from our play book. ‘Deep Throat,’ that’s one that owner Daniel Snyder drew up for me.

You don’t [like it] when you lose,

Our tempo has been much better than last year, … And Mark’s got us in and out of there [the huddle] and our receivers are real smart, real quick, and I think we’ve redefined some...

They rushed the football on us, … We don’t like anybody doing that. It kind of has been something that’s happened to us a little bit here recently.

The problem with signing our guys right now, almost none of the agents want to sign right now. They are afraid now if they go out and do a deal, they are going to get...

That’s never been done before in the NFL, so you’d have to say that this team is going to play a lot of close games, … It’s been phenomenal all the way across the board....

I feel humbled and really thankful the Lord’s blessed us with a great bunch of guys. Any time you get into the playoffs, it’s a huge deal. … I don’t know what to say about...

We will miss him. He has been a real leader for us. I think he has had as good of a year as I remember a guard having. We’ll probably have to adjust some things...

We feel pretty comfortable as a team. I don’t think we’re under pressure to take any one particular spot, to be truthful, right now. I think we can be pretty comfortable at 53, just taking...

When I told (my wife) Pat (that I was coming back), she said you’re going to ruin your good name. After the first year, we’re halfway there.

It’s a real concern, … It’s a problem. We’ve got to get it corrected because you won’t win games up here turning the ball over and I’d still say those are two areas where we...

I think that kind of [depends on] how he progresses this week. He looked pretty good today. We’ll just have to see how sore he gets and what he looks like [tomorrow] or Thursday. But...

My impression is that he’s very accurate. I think he’s going to be a guy that can really roam with the football. He’s going to make plays with his feet. I think he has a...

He has fantastic ball reaction,

That was the most congenial conversation I think I’ve ever had with anybody. What I was saying to him there was, ‘I think you can help the football team’ – that’s when my finger came...

We think that right now we got a core group of players that are extremely hard working. Now, how good we’re going to be, how many games we’re going to win? That remains to be...

This is something that is extremely hard, … You don’t like doing this. I don’t. Sometimes you don’t chart the circumstances or what happens – it just happens. Certainly it wasn’t the plan I had...

I’ve got to do some creative thinking about it, … We do a lot of stuff to emphasize turnovers and taking the ball away in practice. I probably need to think long and hard about...

If you have a chance to win the game, you’re going to try to go for the game.

The thing about Ray is, he’s not going to panic. He’s been around forever. He was able to play tackle for us last year and now he’s come in to play guard. He’s a pretty...

It was ugly, wasn’t it?

We have great chemistry, great character. Our goals would be to keep everybody — the coaching staff, the players — together and hopefully improve next year. We all feel like we’ve got something going here.

For all of us, the collective bargaining agreement is a big deal. We’ve seen everything in this league – strikes, free agency and salary caps. For some teams in the league, it’s going to be...

It’s been a real struggle for us, … And the only way you get out of it is to fight our way out of it.

It’s something we’re trying to gain information about and letting them talk and visit and seeing what situations may be out there. And we’re doing the same thing. We’ll see if there’s a fit. It...

I think it’s just a matter of getting back in there and letting him do a little bit of everything. I don’t think we’ve decided on a specific role for him. Hopefully, he’s going to...

We’ve had balls on the ground, … The quarterback threw about three of them we should have got our hands and should have picked off. It’s just one of those things where we haven’t been...

We’d had three tough losses in a row and everybody was down. I think our players said to themselves: ‘Our backs are up against the wall and we’ve got no other option other than just...

We’ll probably look at the film tomorrow and see some real good things, but right now we’re our own worst enemy,

This is really a heck of a mess you left me in.

You know when you’ve got a good group like that to work with no one knows what’s going to happen but it encourages me because it’s fun to go to work, fun to practice.

As long as he’s not getting in trouble, let him go out and have fun.

Our goal is to try to hold it on offense in that situation, and don’t give it back, … Run time off the clock and protect the lead. We need to average more than that...