“It was surprising. He's a really good player. He's a really good ballplayer, a Pro Bowl player and everything. He's a monster.”
Mike Patterson
“It's always hard to lose good players, he's a Pro Bowl caliber player. He's been a good player here his whole career, ... We're going to miss him, there's no doubt about that. We've lost some players already. I'm not all of a sudden going to make it a gloom and doom situation.”
Herman Edwards
“When I signed the deal, I wasn't a Pro Bowl player, ... To go to four straight Pro Bowls, you deserve some type of raise. They said, 'Come into camp and we'll continue negotiations,' and that's why I'm here.”
Hines Ward
“Simeon Rice is a great player, a perennial Pro Bowl player, but it wouldn't have changed the way we executed. We didn't change our game plan because he was out.”
Kwame Harris
“You'd like to have three or four deep at each position, and a Pro Bowl player on the first team and a backup Pro Bowl player on the second team and so forth. It's just, there's not that many; the good Lord didn't make that many good tackles in the world.”
Ted Thompson
“I think so. But Darren also taught me a lot. Him being a Pro Bowl player and being to the top of the league in the safety position was good for me last year to come in here and see how he does things and see his work ethic,”
Mark Roman
“We've heard it all week. Not to disrespect those guys. They're great players, and Pro Bowl players, and they've had a great year. But I really didn't believe they had ever seen a great defense like ours.”
Ray Lewis
