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Green Bay Packers vs. Minnesota Vikings - 12/30/01
Postgame Quotes - Green Bay
GM/HEAD COACH MIKE SHERMAN:
(on the game) "That's really all that matters, winning the football game.
There are no free passes, contrary to what people in the media might
sometimes think. There are no free passes in the National Football League.
The Minnesota Vikings are a well-coached, good football team. I preached
that to my team this week, that we will see the very best that the Minnesota
Vikings have to offer."
(on the fourth-quarter comeback) "When the game was on the line and we had
to respond to a touchdown that they just had, we did it. I am proud of my
guys for the character they have, a lot of team's couldn't respond the way
our team responded on that seven-play, 79-yard drive that got us a
touchdown."
(on the defensive play at the end of the game) "On the next possession we
intercept the ball and run it in for a touchdown by Mike McKenzie. also,
our defense holding them out of the end zone there at the end of the game.
When you have (Randy) Moss and (Cris) Carter on that side of the ball. I
had some angst over those few moments, and fortunately they relieved me of
that angst."
(on the defense's play against the run) "We have had to make some changes
on defense because of some injuries. We are giving up rushing yardage, but
we are not giving up points right now, and that's a big thing. We are not
giving up touchdowns. It does concern me - it is something that I talked to
the team about a few minutes ago. We have to get it fixed. If we want to
make a run at this thing, we have to be a better run stopping defense."
QUARTERBACK BRETT FAVRE:
(on the game and the rivalry) "To be totally honest I expected it to be a
game like that, I knew the conditions would be tough. I think that is about
as bad as I've played in if you consider the wind and stuff like that. I
honestly felt they would not lay down and let us walk all over them. They
may have done that against other teams, but they are not going to do that
against the Green Bay Packers."
(on Donald Driver's 31-yard reverse run for a touchdown) "We felt like they
would pursue the run very well. One of the things about their defense, they
run after the football well. They played us at their place extremely well
against the run. against a real fast football team it is hard to run wide
against them. One of the last things I told Tom Rossley last night at our
meeting was, 'Run the reverse.' at that particular time we had not done
much on offense and it was a spark that we needed. Donald does a good job
on it."
(on the Packer's play in the fourth quarter) "We have to make plays whether
we are up by twenty or down by twenty. You have to play the game,
regardless of who you are playing, regardless of the situation, the same
way, with the same type of intensity. Not when you get down, not when a guy
hits you in the back and gets you mad. We are just fortunate that Mike
McKenzie made a play for us and we had that [touchdown] drive."
CORNERBACK MIKE MCKENZIE:
(on his interception return for a TD) "We had a situation where we started
out in man and they came out in a bunch situation so we quartered it up. I
read the hook up, read the quarterback and made a play on the ball."
(on his big hits when tackling) "They were throwing a lot of passes down in
front of me so I was forced to come up and make some tackles."
(on shutting down the passing game) "They had a young quarterback out there
and I think they were trying to be simple so they didn't really give us much
to go out and challenge."
WIDE RECEIVER DONALD DRIVER:
(on Favre blocking for him) "That was great. I so close behind him I knew
he was going to make a great block. I cut back inside and I was gone after
that."
(on using the reverse) "We ran one against Chicago here and I only got
seven yards on that play. This time I guess they decided to put Brett in
front and let him block and I spun it all the way."
(on seeing Favre out there) "Really you just see the back of Brett. When
he went down I didn't look at him anymore. I kept running after that. I
saw it on the JumboTron and he made a great block."
SAFETY DARREN SHARPER:
(on his interception) "I was waiting all game for him to try and stick it
in there for Moss. He tried to pin it in on a deep out. I was able to
break on it and pick it off. I tried to score and get some points out of it, but the guy came from behind and stripped me."
(on shutting down the Vikings' pass attack) "I think they had a back-up
quarterback in the game and he wasn't comfortable with their system so they
had to keep it basic. We were able to do some different coverages and
disguise things, giving him different looks. We made some good breaks on
the ball too. On some of the passes that he threw, we were able to get our
hands on it and knock it down."
(on Vikings WR Randy Moss) "We know coming in with a guy like that with the
big play ability that he has, we had to try and contain him as much as
possible and we were able to do that today."
DEFENSIVE COORDINATOR ED DONATELL:
(on the injured players) "I'm not into calculating who is not here. We
know who we have here and we feel we have all the tools to win a lot of
football games and go deep into the playoffs. That's our main concern right
now."
(on the running game of Minnesota) "They did a couple of things to keep us
off-balance. Give them credit, they blocked, they ran hard and they did
some good things. We need to raise our standard and improve next time."
GUARD MARCO RIVERA:
(on the running game) "They played well and we had a little trouble running
the ball. We didn't take control of the game like we wanted to. Sometimes
that is going to happen and we just have to work on that. Hopefully we'll
keep improving and we'll go to New York and run the ball."
(on consistency for the offensive line) "It starts with hard work and
you've got to keep at it. When they call a running play, we just have to
execute. all five guys up front have to execute, the tight end has to
execute and that didn't happen today a few times. ahman had trouble and we
couldn't do anything...We just have to keep working."
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