Tom Coughlin Quotes

"We earned the right to play this game at home, and that is very important. As we have come down the stretch, starting with the Dallas game in early December, our home crowd has unquestionably been a factor in our performance. Our team feeds off the crowd, and we have been able to energize the crowd with our performance."

"It was a very poor performance by our team, ... We fumbled the opening kickoff, had a punt returned against us for a touchdown, a kickoff returned, an interception when we were knocking on the goal line. It's beyond belief that we would play that poorly."

"It was a choice that Kerry made that was best for him and his family and his future. And so we tried to do the best we could with it."

"Any time there's a player of that caliber out there, you have to give it due diligence. Beyond that, we haven't done a whole lot of discussing it."

"You're at home, you are in a comfortable surrounding, you have your fans, and you have the ability to control the noise much better, ... Noise is a factor."

"He's come in every day after throwing 70, 75 balls and not had any problem. I don't expect it to be any different. We'll advance along accordingly. There's no limitations [on Manning]."

"First and foremost, he's an outstanding athlete. He has to be or else he wouldn't be in this position. He takes great care of himself. He's a competitor by nature. He has a great sense of humor, which I think keeps everything in perspective for him, good or bad. But, to play as long as he has played and to be on the verge of breaking these records is a tremendous accomplishment. For someone to be in a position that he's in and having done this for so many years and continue to be excited about coming to work every day and the opportunities he has is really a remarkable thing."

"He's an incredible athlete and a guy whose conditioning really has been a measuring stick for everybody in this league. It is so easy for us to point to Jerry Rice when we are trying to make a strong message with a player who we may not feel is as serious about his game as he should be."

"We're gathering information [on Peterson]. There are a lot of options available to us at this time. There's a possibility that it's something that may need to be watched over the next four to six weeks. We'll just have to look at the facts and make those decisions."

"It was a very poor performance by our team. We fumbled the opening kickoff, had a punt returned against us for a touchdown, a kickoff returned, an interception when we were knocking on the goal line. It's beyond belief that we would play that poorly."

"They're using them very well. Both compliment each other and they both seem to have outstanding yardage, yet neither one of them has an overly amount of carries."

"Kevin's a great coach and the hands-on guy that's taken Eli through all the mental processes. Being his position coach, it's Kevin's responsibility to teach him how to conduct his business and how to accept his role as a team leader."

"His last couple of weeks have been generally positive. He was good under fire against the Patriots last week."

"Steve Smith had a great year, no question. Even more so when you think that every team has it on their checklist to do something about Steve Smith. The other day we gave up a lot of passing yardage to some outstanding receivers. But our No. 1 thing will still be to stop the run. That's where we start."