Jeff Fisher

We play these games to win them. If you don't win them, you have to look at other things, and I'm looking at performance, production and good things across the board.

I think it's a very good group. There's size, and there's depth.

In this particular case this year, I can't see that happening. There's no way one of these guys is not going to be a great quarterback. They are all going to be real good.

It was good to see Pac on the field, ... It looked to me like he made some plays. I don't know about that (pass interference) call. It was a very athletic play to get his hand on the ball. I think the assumption was that he went through the receiver.

We'll see how it goes. His health really wasn't a factor. The other side of that is had he been struggling and ailing with something and a question before the game, we would've been forced to have a third quarterback.

It's really neat that you've got two teams that are healthy and going strong. I think it's going to be a hell of a game. I really do.

He's not here. He's not going to Atlanta. We'll hope he's here on the practice field and does enough work so he can go to San Francisco.

He's completely different here now. He was surviving (Monday) on instinct. We'll settle him down and use technique and those things, and he'll be fine.

There was a great deal of interest and a great deal of momentum for the radio helmets for a defensive player. But if there was a malfunction of the equipment, then all bets were off. On the offensive side, you simply have the quarterback, but on the defensive side, it could be the linebacker or the safety. There is a lot more involved.

There's a bright, bright red light out there now that says you can't go low.

I am disappointed the last two weeks in his play on the field. I thought four or five weeks ago, he had made the turn and he went through some tough personal problems the week he returned the punt for a touchdown. I think he got worn out. I think he became distracted. I know for a fact, he has a long way to go to become a true pro in this league.

I thought that maybe a kickoff approach, the eight to 10-yard run type of thing might have been a better approach. But we learned from it.

The hardest thing to do in this league as I've said time and time again is to back up because you don't get the reps, ... You have to mentally put yourself in position on the practice field as if you were there in person. That's something that takes getting used to.

not anticipating him missing any time past Pittsburgh.

Titans coach Jeff Fisher took on the role of fireman Monday, trying to douse the conflagration that began Sunday when quarterback Steve McNair said he will contemplate retiring. He simply said he is going to evaluate his situation when the season is over, ... He has every right to do so, and I would expect him to do that. I'm not so sure this is the first time he's evaluated his status.

They had to put a pin in (his thumb) and he will be out for an indefinite period of time. We'll just see how quickly he comes around.

He will be out for an indefinite period of time, at least this week, and in all likelihood, next week. And then we'll just see how quickly he comes around. It's going to be difficult for him obviously in the next couple weeks with that pin in there, and in fact it is going to be immobilized.

We know what his history is. He wants very badly to play in this ballgame. The last time we played in the Meadowlands, he did not practice and probably won't practice this week.

Chad sometimes thinks he gets in people's heads, but most of the time, defensive players around this league line up and play, ... Pac is going to line up and play our defense. He knows that he has got to do the best he can, stay focused and concentrate.

Our whole objective this week was to protect the football, and up until the time in which we gave it up, we were winning. That is the difference in the ballgame, the three turnovers.

He is a very smart, talented player that picked up things in a short amount of time.

It makes us all think, it makes us all appreciate what we have. I think it makes us realize how important it is to take time to spend with our kids.

We had the ball for a long time and didn't get points. We turned it over. Again, keeping their offense off the field was a goal of ours.

I think I say this every year about this time we don't have mistakes that are being repeated, ... What we're doing is we're going through and exhausting that list of mistakes that have to be corrected.

Now Atlanta didn't spend a whole lot of time game-planning. Those things stayed basic, and we were able to take advantage of it.