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DRE’S PLAY NETS 60 FOR RECORD EIGHTH TIME
The onfield altercation between WR
Andre Johnson and Tennessee CB Cortland
Finnegan overshadowed one of the
NFL’s great receiving accomplishments
last Sunday. Johnson became the first
Johnson
receiver in NFL history to post 60 or more
receptions in each of his first eight seasons.
“It’s a tremendous honor,” Johnson said. “I always said
that I wanted to be one of the best players at my position
when I came into this game and I did something that no
one else has done for the first time. I’m excited about it. I’m
glad that we got to win the football game.”
As for the fracas on the field, Johnson was apologetic: “I
would like to apologize to the organization, our owner, my
teammates. What happened out there today wasn’t me.
I just lost my cool and I wish that I could take back what
happened.”
Schaub
REUNION THURSDAY FOR SCHAUB
QB Matt Schaub will have plenty of familiar
faces around him Thursday night.
Schaub played his high school football
career just 22 miles west of Lincoln Financial
Field, at West Chester East High
School.
In addition to the friends and family he
will see, an old teammate will be on the opposing sideline
in Eagles QB Michael Vick.
“I’m looking forward to playing against him and playing
up there in Philadelphia,” Schaub said. “That’s where I
grew up, so it will be fun to go back home and play up
there.”
Schaub served as Vick’s backup in Atlanta for three seasons.
“I learned a lot watching Mike and playing behind
him for three years,” Schaub said. “He was one of the
most, at the time, visible and talented sports figures, along
with the likes of Tiger Woods, in the world. Just learning
and watching him go through a game plan each week,
what he had to deal with being the starting quarterback,
there were just a ton of things I learned and took away
from that.”
QUIN PERSEVERES
It hasn’t been easy the last few weeks
for CB Glover Quin. In Week 10, he batted
down a Hail Mary pass that went directly
into the arms of Jacksonville WR
Mike Thomas for a game-winning score.
A week later, he was on the field as the
Quin Jets negated a valiant comeback effort,
scoring a last-minute touchdown to sentd the Texans to
their fourth consecutive defeat. In the days following that
game, he found out about broken bones in his hand.
But not once did Quin cut and run. He stayed the course
and in the eyes of head coach Gary Kubiak, Quin’s three
interceptions Sunday against Tennessee weren’t all too
surprising.
“We should have broke his hand at the start of the season,”
Kubiak quipped after the game. Kubiak continued
on a serious note, “It must have just leveled things out or
something. He is a great kid. He plays very hard. He came
off a humbling experience in Jacksonville. He handled it
like a man and good things happen to people that just keep
battling and stay after it and that’s what he’s all about. I’m
very proud of him today. It’s great for him.”
For Quin, it was a sweet reward after weeks of bitter defeat
on the field.
“I beat myself up a lot just because I want to win and
regardless of the situation, regardless of what happened, I
want to try to be successful,” Quin said of the weeks prior.
“So I beat myself up a lot but I try to do everything I can
to stay confident in my abilities to play. I had great support
from my teammates and my coaches and they just kept
believing in me and I kept believing in myself and believing
in God. I knew it was going to come through eventually,
and today it came through and I couldn’t be happier.”
Foster
A LITTLE PEP TALK GOES A LONG WAY
RB Arian Foster’s 28 yards on seven
carries in the first quarter against Tennessee
wasn’t necessarilyl a bad start,
but it wasn’t what head coach Gary Kubiak
was looking for.
“I just saw a couple of runs, and I said
I thought you ‘need to get the ball down
a little better on the screen,’ “ Kubiak said. “You know,
it’s just me talking to a player, challenging a player. I told
him at halftime when I walked out with him, I said I expect
more out of you than anybody. So that’s the way he played.
I mean this kid has a 200-plus day of offense. He’s playing
some damn good football. As he goes we kind of go, so we
need him at his best.”
And go, Foster did.
The second-year back finished the game with 29 carries
for 143 yards and had nine receptions for a career-high 75
yards. It marked his second time this season he had more
than 200 yards from scrimmage.
“He just told me that he expects more out of me,” Foster
said of his conversation with Kubiak. “He expects me to
make plays when there aren’t plays to be made. He’s right.
In the first quarter and early second quarter, it was a slow
game, kind of an easy-going game and sometimes I play
like that. All of us did. We just kind of kicked it in and found
another gear and we really got rolling.”
Foster leads the NFL with 1,600 yards from scrimmage
and a league-best 1,147 yards from scrimmage.
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