QB Michael Vick
On how excited he is to get back out on the playing field and how this week went for him physically: "This week went well. I had my days when I felt well, felt good out there and some days when it kind of ran down on me. But I finished strong, feel good and I'm excited about getting out there this week."
On whether he made conscious efforts to test his leadership this week: "Yeah, I think it's a challenge for all of us, especially myself, to try to put this team in the best position to finish strong. And that's our goal, that's the focal point and there wouldn't be a better feeling after such a rough start. So we just have to focus one play at a time, one week at a time, and you know try to end the season on a good note."
On whether he gets the sense that players are looking up to him: "Absolutely, I think the guys believe in what I say. I think just by my actions and my will to go out there and do anything that it takes to win helps them to believe what I'm really saying. So I just try to be as genuine and as candid as I can with myself on and off the field."
On whether he worries that still being in the playoff hunt will creep into players' minds: "No, we're just going to go out and have fun these next four weeks and aside from everything else go out and play the game that we are so blessed to play and the game that we love and play it wholeheartedly and enjoy doing it, stop making it so tough. I think we let everything else distract us, so our focal point is to just go out there and be the best that we can be."
On whether it is important in his mind to play well in the last four games: "It's always important for me to play well each and every week. And things haven't gone well my way or our way this year, and so it's important to go out there and finish strong, like I said. There's nothing else to say really."
On his thoughts about Miami's defensive front and what he has to do to avoid getting hurt: "Well they do a good job up front and they've been very disruptive to the opposition. But we just have to go out there and be able to protect, you know it's a part of football. You have to be able to block guys that are in front of you and you have to be able to uphold the integrity of the pocket. So you know, that's just one thing that they do well aside from other things and something that we have to definitely take control over."
On whether he watched game film when he was injured and did a little self-scouting: "Yeah, you know I went back and looked at every single game."
On what he saw: "You know, just turnovers, we just turned the ball over. We were always in a position to win the games, and we played good football, a lot of good football, but we just didn't make some plays that we normally make. And doing that, the outcome of the game was different whether it was determined by our offensive play, defensive play or special teams play. We just didn't get it done."
On whether he thinks he is a different person/player due to adversity later in his career now: "Yeah, it always meant a lot, the difference between winning and losing, you know it's a different feel of emotions. And now, you don't necessarily feel like your time is running out but you want to take advantage of every opportunity because each year that passes is a year, that if you don't get it done, that's gone and you can't get back. And I know that I'm not going to play for forever, so you know I think it's paramount that things happen in an expedited fashion for me. But you know, this is the ultimate team game and one or two players can't control the outcome of a game."
CB Nnamdi Asomugha
On whether he is expecting to have CB Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie out there and whether it will help having him back out there: "It would help and we would love to have him back. We've been telling him all week that you can't go if you can't go. So we don't know how it's going to play out or I don't know how it's going to play out. But if he can come back that would be great, that would be huge for us. If not, we have to win it anyway."
On whether he has a lot of experience covering WR Brandon Marshall: "Yeah, we went at it a lot of times back when we were both in the AFC West and I would just follow him across the field. And he's a really good player, a great challenge."
On his thoughts about how he's faired versus Marshall: "Yeah, I mean I've faired pretty well against him. Obviously, he's one of the great receivers in the league so it's always a challenge when you go up against that type of talent. But you know it's a good battle."
On whether the key to success is just shutting down Marshall: "No, it's not that type of offense. Sometimes you can pinpoint a guy and say, 'If you take this guy out of the game you've got them.' But it's not that way with this group. I mean, (QB) Matt Moore has been making plays with his feet as well as his arm, they have two other receivers – they have a guy in the slot, (WR Devon) Bess, that's been doing really well over the last few weeks and (RB) Reggie Bush has played well. You know, they have a lot of talent; (WR Brian) Hartline's doing well. It's not just Brandon and we know that going into it. But they've been playing really well."
C Jason Kelce
On his thoughts about how he is going to approach the final four games: "We still have an outside shot of making the playoffs if some things happen. And right now, with these last four games I'm going to…for myself what I'm going to do is what I've been trying to do all year is just try to improve and continually get better. And hopefully on offense we can eliminate the turnovers that we've been committing and make some progress from that standpoint."
On whether it's hard not to let that pressure of still being alive in the playoff hunt creep into their minds: "I think when you're out there and you're playing you're not really thinking about we have to win the game or we have to win the remaining four games to make the playoffs. When you're out there playing you're just thinking about each individual play and doing your job. And you're so focused about the task at hand for each individual play that you're kind of distracted from whatever else is going on."
