The day in quotes

"It's the Eagles. And the Giants. A rivalry game in the playoffs.  You bring big shoulder pads to that game. You come prepared." - Brian Dawkins

"We're going to go in this week and look at film, but there won't be any surprises. They're not a tricky team. [Tom Coughlin] isn't a tricky coach. Here's what we do; try to stop us. That's how they won the Super Bowl. That's the way you play them." - Brian Dawkins

"With them, it's all about getting pressure on Eli [Manning]." - Jim Johnson on Manning's fraudulency.

"I don't know. It's hard to say. He has gotten better, but I'm not sure he's there yet. It's hard to say." - Johnson on Chris Gocong's potential to contribute on the blitz. 

"It makes a difference, there's no question about it. We'll still mix up our coverages and fronts, but it makes a difference without Plaxico. The biggest thing with Plaxico was trying to get a good matchup. We didn't have anybody we really could match up. We feel like we have a guy who can match up against Hixon a little bit, but Plaxico was so tall that it was hard to match up sometimes."  - Johnson on the loss of Plaxico

"He looks good. He looked good yesterday. I think he'll be okay." - Johnson on Victor Abiamiri

I think they are a heck of a defense. They had things locked up pretty quick. In fact, that last game meant nothing there. I think they are an excellent defensive front and an excellent front seven. They really play well. The time of their blitzes are excellent. So, you always miss a great player but certainly they had depth, in fact two great players, and they had depth and they kept it going, and I think they are still going pretty good there." - Mornhinweg by ignoring their general existence insinuates the Giant defensive backfield is the weakness that must be exploited!  FORESHADOWING!!

"We've talked about this before even last year and early this season. Brent Celek is a heck of a football player. He's consistent in everything he does and very dependable and then has some skill and ability. He has not surprised anybody on our staff because we expected that from him." - Mornhinweg on Brent Celek: 

"He's been banged up a little bit, yeah. And then we try to get better every day, and it's hard to get better every day if you're not practicing or if you aren't practicing much. So, I think that's kind of playing into it just a little bit. L.J. is a fine football player. He's a heck of an athlete; very athletic. It's good to have him back on the practice field. He did practice a little bit yesterday, so we'll see here what happens before the game." - Mornhinweg on L.J. Smith.  Celek is a 'heck of a football player.'  Smith is a 'heck of an athlete.'  That speaks volumes.

"The gameplan is pretty big usually for any particular game. Your thought process may go a little bit different if it's big wind. It has to be pretty big wind with our quarterback. Our quarterback can cut through the wind pretty good with his arm strength, so it has to be pretty big to have much effect, and that's a good thing. That's one of Donovan's strengths there. It's a good thing, yeah. With Donovan's arm strength he cuts through the wind pretty good." -  Mornhinweg sounding like an alcoholic looking for his next drink.