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You always have a burning desire to do well, ... It wouldn't matter if it was the first year, second year, third year.
Joe Gibbs -
He's had a big learning curve, and we want to play him more than what we did the other night, ... has got him scheduled to play more. He's a very good athlete, and he also can carry the football, and at some point here I'd like to get him a few carries and kind of see what he looks like there, too. But I think it's just a work in progress, and we're working really hard with him.
Joe Gibbs
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Patrick stepped in there and did a heck of a job. And I don't know if you can say enough about Santana.
Joe Gibbs -
It's a very competitive thing, pro sports. The hardest thing in pro sports is staying up there.
Joe Gibbs -
I was concerned. I wanted to see what happened overnight. He gave me a good report.
Joe Gibbs -
Certainly, I don't think anybody here feels satisfied with our passing game or rushing game right now.
Joe Gibbs -
I thought the first part of the year, when he was healthy, I think that is about as good as I've seen anybody run.
Joe Gibbs -
Last year we saw rookies play extremely well at quarterback, and they beat us; Pittsburgh beat us soundly.
Joe Gibbs
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We think he has great flexibility for us.
Joe Gibbs -
You make sure you cover all the things we did poorly. Sometimes in a win like that, you have a tendency to say we played great, but you miss a lot of things that we did poorly. Penalties were definitely a problem. We turned the ball over. ... We've been riding a ragged edge. That's not good football. We've got to fix it. We've got to look at it as a great win, but there's things we need to improve upon.
Joe Gibbs -
I know he's disappointed not making more of an impact, not playing more, ... It's something we just have to work our way through. I think our defensive schemes are trying to use all of our people. In this case, I could see people saying, 'Hey, I don't understand that.' But I think it's just something we're working our way through as we scheme it up. It's just one of those things.
Joe Gibbs -
There have been a number of times where this team could have said we're out of it and given up. It got to the point where our backs were against the wall and the players responded. That's says a lot about their character.
Joe Gibbs -
Jason did some good things and some bad things.
Joe Gibbs -
He thinks the world of our team. He thinks we've got heart and fight.
Joe Gibbs
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The past doesn't buy you much.
Joe Gibbs -
We saw him throw it, we saw him run with it, we saw him catch it, and certainly those are roles we want to expand. Our goal would be, with a guy like this, to try and get his hands on the ball.
Joe Gibbs -
I've been proud of our guys, the way they fight. We fight extremely hard.
Joe Gibbs -
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 see.
Joe Gibbs -
It's what I lean on. Any time I feel down, like we all do, I think about that. Hey, this is where I'm supposed to be. There's a confidence knowing that God has put you here, and it's a matter of you living this, doing the best you can, working the hardest you can, trying to make it happen. Whether it's going to happen or not, we don't know.
Joe Gibbs -
We felt like we had some other players that fit the role for us and do a lot of things for us. It was a competitive thing.
Joe Gibbs
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We've got to look at it as a great win, ... But there's things we need to improve on.
Joe Gibbs -
We've had comments from people we've played -- that play was the one that really scared them. Teams blitz a lot, and if you catch that thing and there's one mistake by the defense, it's all over.
Joe Gibbs -
He is explosive. He can really run and he covers a lot of ground. You see when he gets matched up covering people, like tight ends and running backs, he does a very good job.
Joe Gibbs -
Everything is on the table. We didn't have the production we wanted late in the year. But we did make a big jump. It's a matter of evaluating everything and seeing the ways that we can help ourselves get more production. It's a little bit strategy, and it's certainly personnel.
Joe Gibbs