Jeremy Shockey Quotes
There are no hard feelings from our side.
It`s no fun watching your friend and teammate get hit back there, and drop back and get hit every other play. I was ticked off more than anything. I was telling some of the offensive linemen that we`ve got to stop this thing before it starts, unlike last year when teams kept teeing off on him. We`ve all got to give him time to throw because if he has time, he`s definitely going to pick defenses apart.
Injuries, yeah, I know, they happen, and they happen in every sport. I just want to get back to the player I was when I first got drafted.
You`re going to have your differences in the way you practice. There are no hard feelings from our side. It`s an important preseason game for us, to show we`re getting better. We don`t have anything against the guys that came here and practiced against us. They`re not in our conference; it`s over with.
I just know that I need to be better than what I was the past couple of years,
I was blocking somebody and I got shoved in the back, and the next thing I know, everybody`s fighting. There`s no bad blood. That`s how football is. You might as well do it now, when you don`t get fined and (NFL Commissioner) Paul Tagliabue can`t take any money out of your pocket. Do it now, get it over with. I`m sure it happens at every other camp.
Everybody knows in order to have a good offense you have to stretch the field. Now we have Plax, and he`ll definitely be helping us in that aspect.
Last year I had 61 catches and it felt like 10,
(The time off) was probably a blessing in disguise. He got his arm rested. He got to step back and watch like he did his first year. So it`s not like he was out of it completely. He`s on the same page with us.
No hard feelings from our side. It`s important not to get caught up in bad feelings. We don`t have anything against those guys.
