Marvin Lewis

I can't give you the exact definition of what a fast start is. That's the thing, we get to define that, ... We get to write the script to what a fast start is. I can't tell you right now what that script says.

As I keep saying from the day he walked in here, the guy no matter what he touches can turn to gold.

They'll keep playing. We didn't play well at the beginning of the game and were playing uphill. But we kept playing and hanging in there together.

You can't purposely go out and hurt somebody. I've never seen that happen in the NFL. So I don't think there needs to be any resentment.

This is a serious injury, but we are told the procedure went very well. We know Carson and we know he will apply himself fully to his rehabilitation. This result encourages our feeling that Carson will be ready to open the 2006 season as our starting quarterback.

This is a serious injury, but we are told the procedure went very well.

Hopefully, we'll learn from it.

We have to learn from this, and we will, ... I'm not worried at all. There's no psychological stigma. We'll put this behind us.

I thought our offense did a good job of fighting through some early difficulties. But we have to do a better job of field position. That hurt us on both sides of the ball.

We were very pleased to win the game. It has been a long time coming and we have a lot to learn from it. Sporadically we did a lot of good things in every area. We are not off to a good start, we just won one football game.

He's had a good week. Every time he steps on the field, he practices hard and he's learning what he needs to learn. He's getting closer to doing the things he needs to do.

When picking fourth, you know from day one hes going to be a starter. Drafting later, that guy might not jump off the board 100 percent of the time.

Our guys are grown up now. It's time to work and act like a team. They've had individual success. They've had a moderate degree of success as a football team. So it's time now to go beyond that.

We are underdogs. We're underdogs every time we step on the field. Don't let anyone fool you. We're underdogs.

Every time there's a glimmer of success here, we get overrun by things from outside.

And yet he wasn't moping and getting down on himself. He's a fighter. He know he's got to come back and do it the right way. He knows he had a chance to kind of be the hero, which would have been fun. It would have been neat. But not doing it this time won't stop him from doing it the next time.

Obviously, right now, he would have a difficult time coming in and being a starting player on our team just because he's missed too much. I can't subject the other 52 players and our coaches and everybody else to that.

I said sacrifice something you normally do and spend that time on Pittsburgh.

I've advised everybody, all the time. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.

He's a good player. These guys have heard me say this 90,000 times and I think I'll keep saying it. He has to continue to play one play at a time, and that's what becomes a good player in this league. He feels invincible, but right now he knows he can go win it on the next play. He doesn't have to win it on every play. I think that says a lot for him and how important he is to this team.

It just tells you that we have a good football team, but we need to play good at all times or that's what's going to happen. We have enough good players and a team that has some resolve.

Obviously, we didn't play very well today. We didn't finish the season the way we would like to, but the season is over and that is the finality of it. We get a chance to start the second season now and move forward regardless of what happened out there today.

I'm happy where we are at 7-2. I don't think we had any major injuries today. When we come out of the bye, it looks like we should be at full strength.

We dug ourselves a hole in field position in the first half. Letting them go down the field and scoring in the third quarter, so we're playing from behind today Jacksonville beat us.

Our guys responded, adjusted, and responded. Interesting enough, I talked to our guys all week about expanding their roles, and we had some guys expand their roles today.