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It's been a big emphasis for us this week. We need to step it up on pass protection because it's a big deal for us.
Joe Gibbs
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The center picked the ball up a little bit and we felt like we got it off right when he picked it up, ... We probably looked at it 30 times in there with Danny and I'd say we kind of got right off on it. That could have won it for us.
Joe Gibbs
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The scheme they had on defense for us was something quite a few people up here can play.
Joe Gibbs
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The only way we are going to make the playoffs is by beating Philly. There is not a single person in this building who believes we can get in any other way.
Joe Gibbs
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That's my responsibility and obviously we wanted to be much more productive than we were in the playoffs. That'll be one of the things we look hard at.
Joe Gibbs
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Trying to win five straight is a tough deal up here. Our backs have been against the wall for five weeks.
Joe Gibbs
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We wish the last two years had been smoother. We wish there had been no injuries. We wish he could have played more and played back to the standard where he wanted to be. I know he was totally frustrated by it.
Joe Gibbs
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You win and you're in; you lose and you're out. We've been in that situation the past four weeks, ever since the three (consecutive) losses (in November).
Joe Gibbs
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They are a very good football team over there. They are No. 1 in many categories and we were trying everything we could.
Joe Gibbs
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We have no doubt that Dallas will be there. We take it as a given. We don't even think there's any question about it.
Joe Gibbs
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When are we going to start getting it done? I don't know. I know we're here for the long haul. So, at some point, we've got to start getting it done if we're going to win football games.
Joe Gibbs
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My commitment to the players was to try to keep this whole group together and hopefully improve and step up again next year.
Joe Gibbs
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We'll continue to talk about that all week.
Joe Gibbs
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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 the best athlete.
Joe Gibbs
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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 to be aggressive. Free agency is a place where you make fewer mistakes because you're not trying to project somebody from a college environment to the pros. You've got somebody that has already played up here and been successful.
Joe Gibbs
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Right now, everybody is nervous. Certainly, we're one of those teams. We have a worst-case scenario that we have been working on for several weeks and we have a best case and everything in between.
Joe Gibbs
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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 for the team and for him, rather than to try and rush him back, to put him in IR.
Joe Gibbs
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It was a big disappointment for us, ... We talked long and hard about it. It's been a real concern. It's a problem, and we've got to get it corrected.
Joe Gibbs
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I think we realized what was at stake.
Joe Gibbs
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I've got to tell you, for a little old guy fighting his guts out, we really like him. We've got some tough decisions there to make, and certainly he stood up.
Joe Gibbs
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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.
Joe Gibbs
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It's probably one of our biggest concerns, with his groin. It'll probably be later in the week before we get a report on that.
Joe Gibbs
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It's exciting to me, ... because we're getting back some high quality players that have been missing for a while.
Joe Gibbs
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The quarterback situation there, yeah, experience is something they'd probably like to have. But what they have is a high-quality quarterback there.
Joe Gibbs
