Three downs with ...
Ravens outside linebacker Terrell Suggs
1. On if a bad performance can linger: "Yeah, but you’ve got to do more than just hope it doesn't happen again. You can’t let it happen again. Especially playing like that, you might get blown out every week, especially in this league.
"You can't hope that you never play like that. You’ve got to do everything in your power to make sure that you don't play like that again.”
2. On the AFC North teams that have defeated the Ravens coming to Baltimore: "Payback, definitely. I think it's a Japanese proverb that said, ‘Revenge is a dish best served cold.’ We have played our best at M&T Bank Stadium. I love that we got all those teams that have beat us have got to come play us here."
3. On finger-pointing: "We win and lose together as a team. Both sides of the ball had some miscues, so you can’t just say, ‘You did this, you did that.’ When you point the finger, you’ve got four fingers pointing right back at you. We don’t point the finger.
"A coward can point fingers and say, ‘They did this, they did that.’ But you’ve also got to take a look at yourself. We’re a team. The day when we all play perfect, then this definitely should not be an issue.”
Three downs with ...
Bengals quarterback Carson Palmer
1. On his team's woeful season: "Extremely disappointed. Very surprised that we’re where we are. The only reason we’re here is because we put ourselves in this position. We didn’t take care of business when we stepped on the field, and have hurt ourselves in a number of instances.
"Now we kind of feel like our back is against the wall. It’s nothing like some adversity to see what kind of guys we’ve got on this team, and I’m confident and very fortunate to have the guys we have to fight our way out of this.”
2. On playing for a 2-6 team after having so much success at USC: "We went through a point where we didn’t win a game for five or six weeks, with our bye. We’re not at all a team that accepts it, or is OK with it. We realize where we are.
"Like I said, we need to fight our way out of this and we’ve got guys that don’t accept losing, that are frustrated all week long after a loss, and can’t wait to get to the next game.”
3. On what he expects from the Ravens: “You just know they’re going to come out hungry. They’re going to come out fired up, feel like they’ve got something to prove.
"When you get embarrassed on national television, it’s easy to go into that next week fired up to play, excited to play and go and prove you are who you are. Defensively, they’re as good as it gets in this league, and they’re going to be trying to prove that this week after last week’s loss.”
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