HB Michael Bush:
“[Hue Jackson’s] motto is being the bully, and that’s what we’re trying to do.”
TE Zach Miller:
“We have an up tempo offense and we’re out here; and you see how we’re [running] rapid fire type plays and having some success out here in OTA’s.”
[Hue’s] bringing a whole different attitude, he’s all about being aggressive and making sure we score points and make big plays. He knows we have the talent, we just have to be able to put it together.”WR Louis Murphy:
“Everybody’s on the same page it’s been great out here going through OTA’s and mini-camp, it’s a whole different feeling then last year.”
“[Jason Campbell] loves to work, so we’re out here putting in the work and time it takes to be great. He’s teaching me so much, with me being in just my second year, going through all the different offenses he’s been through and all types of defensive coverage’s, it’s teaching me a lot, it’s just good to have that veteran QB to show us what we have to do.”
“We’ve been making plays on the defense left and right, [Hue Jackson] adds so much of a different style and a different mentality to our offense, and we’re coming out upbeat, high intensity all the time, and working on finishing. Just him and the mentality he brings has been a complete change.”
CB Nnamdi Asomugha:
“[Jason Campbell] is a natural leader, so that’s good, something that the offense has been dying to have at the QB position, someone that’s gonna command the huddle, and get the guys lined up and that kind of stuff, so that’s great first off. And then, he knows how to read defenses really well and that helps him to make checks at the line and that stuff, so it’s good. Defensively, you can go to a QB like that and start asking him questions, he knows…he can tell you what disguises are working, what disguises aren’t working; what balls a QB can’t throw; and where a DB can make it difficult for a QB to fit a ball in there so there’s a lot of ways the QB can help the whole team, not just the offense, you could have defensive guys getting just as much help as the offensive guys.”
“Any time [Hue] sees me out there, he’s gonna talk trash to me, ‘We’re coming at you’, and he told me this early on, he said ‘when we can complete balls on you, then we know we’re progressing; we know that we’re going in the right direction’ so I think it’s good. So every now and then, I’ll let him complete one so he feels good about himself, but…no it’s good, he talks a lot of trash.”
“[Rolando McClain] can help us out a lot, he can help us in the run; he’s a bigger guy, he can stuff fullbacks in the whole before they even get started. He’s a smart guy, athletic guy, so that’s gonna help us out in the passing game. His intelligence is gonna help us because he is gonna know the defense, he’s gonna know the checks that the offense is making, so he’ll be able to check for us, just like a QB does, he’ll be able to do that for the defense. He can help us out a lot, he’s still gotta get the playbook down and it’s very early for him, training camp can be very difficult for a rookie, so there’s gonna be a learning curve, but hopefully it works out.”
“I’ve told Mr. Davis I don’t want to go anywhere, and he knows that and everyone in this building knows that, I don’t want to get traded, I don’t want to be on any other team. I wanna be right here, so everyone outside can speculate and hope that they can put a trade together to get me. I heard I was going to Baltimore a couple weeks ago. You hear all sorts of non-sense in the offseason, but whether a team wants me or not, I’m here, and this is where I wanna be and everybody here knows that.”
QB Jason Campbell:
“We all shoot for perfection, whether you get perfection or not, you gotta aim for it. That’s the only way you can create opportunities, and more opportunities, you gotta aim high. That’s what we gotta continue to do each and every day, we got a lot of young guys, a lot of young talent, but at the same time, we got a lot of smart guys, so that can help carry us.”
“The one thing I like about [the WR’s] is you can tell them to do something and they’ll do it, they won’t complain about it, they won’t second guess it, they’ll just line up and do it. Today in individual, they ran a lot of deep routes and no one complained, the one thing they want to do is catch the ball and get into a rhythm, because it’s all about getting a feel for each other and the quicker that can happen, the better we will be.”
Head Coach Tom Cable:
“Darrius was really on today. But I thought a lot of things went in to that. I thought the quarterbacks threw him a lot of balls on time. He caught the ball well, made a move with after the catch, which I thought was most impressive. It was a very good day for him.”
“[QB accuracy] goes a lot towards the development of [the WR’s], including your tight ends in that group, and just overall, I’ve mentioned this before, just when you have someone throwing them the ball where you can catch it and on time and those kinds of things it gives them a chance to have success and build their confidence and grow as a unit. I think it’s having a lot to do with what’s going on.”
“Being able to have [Hue Jackson] focus on [the offense] the whole time helps us with the other coaches to go out here every day and work on something and improve on something and I think You’re seeing that happen. I’m able to focus on personnel all the time now, so this team how I see it, what I think it needs or doesn’t need or this or that is very much on my mind 24-7 now. I think that the development of the rookies, the development of the coaching staff, what are they doing, how are they coaching, how are we teaching? I think all of those things are things I get to do now that before were just kind of a secondary thought, there just wasn’t enough time.”
Jerry MacDonald asked Cable how concerned he was about the linebacker coverage one-on-one.
“I don’t know that it is [a concern], if you look at what’s going on in practice, we’ve got some pretty good people doing that at back and at tight end and all that, and they will get open, but they’ll also be covered as much as they get open, so if we can continue to improve on that, mix in the safeties on that a little bit, I’d expect us to be pretty good there.”
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