“I'd been teasing him all year about how he hasn't finished the long run yet. So I was pleased to see him get the long run. But we feel on any run we call, he can bust it.”
“You never know which play is going to be the one that he breaks. So that makes us all work a little bit harder. It makes you kind of block that extra second.”
“Easy game? There's no easy game in the NFL, ... I know this game was on grass and you're always more sore after a game on artificial turf, but I'm telling you, I'm going to be sore from this one. It was an extremely physical game.”
“I think right now, coming into this season, it was really just our confidence and our ability to execute the offense the way it's supposed to be, ... This was our second year. We harped on it all preseason, how much more comfortable everybody is in this offense, and I think that's showing on Sundays. That's coming out.”
“[Manning's center, Shaun O'Hara, sensed Eli's growth by the way he sounded in the huddle.] Eli went from saying everything as if it had a question mark at the end of it, ... to saying things with a commanding presence.”
“It's night and day, ... It's like the difference between being a freshman in high school and trying to find your classroom to being a senior walking the halls with a little swagger. There's just a lot more confidence going out there, and in the NFL, if there's any lack of confidence, it's going to show.”
“It's night and day. It's like the difference between being a freshman in high school and trying to find your classroom to being a senior walking the halls with a little swagger. There's just a lot more confidence going out there, and in the NFL, if there's any lack of confidence, it's going to show.”
“I think right now, coming into this season, it was really just our confidence and our ability to execute the offense the way it's supposed to be. This was our second year. We harped on it all preseason, how much more comfortable everybody is in this offense, and I think that's showing on Sundays. That's coming out.”
