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(On how much he credits Chad Pennington's presence in the huddle) - "He's our leader and he brings a lot of poise. He comes in there, there's no panic in the huddle. He just tells us to execute, play like we've been playing. His demeanor is real calm. That helps out the whole offense. If the quarterback would've come in and you can sense or see panic, the whole offense might panic. He's been in those situations before, we've been in those situations before and his calm demeanor helps us all out.
(On why he thinks the receivers have come together as a group the way they have) - "That's part of it. You try to ignore what the media says about you, but at some point the criticism gets back to you. We knew that we were considered a weak link on this team and we had the talent, we just didn't have the big names or the experience that a lot of NFL teams have. We knew that we had to stick together as a group, show the league, show the team, show our coaches what we were capable of. Chad Pennington did a great job of working with us to get us to where we need to be. We're still not there, still have some work to do, hopefully we'll show soon."
On the attitude of the players when a coach decides to go for it on fourth down) - "That's huge. The O-line played incredibly well the whole game. They controlled the line of scrimmage. All we needed was six inches, a foot maybe and we have confidence in the big guys if we need that, we'll just get right behind them. They did a great job of pushing forward."
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