NBC’s Football Night in America Quotage for Week 11

We conclude our Sunday NFL pregame quotage with this evening’s Football Night in America show on NBC. Videos are also included.

“FOOTBALL NIGHT IN AMERICA” NOTES & QUOTES – WEEK 11

Bob Costas interviews Mike Vick

“Had he not gone to prison, I don’t think that it would have ever come.” – “Football Night’s” Tony Dungy on Mike Vick’s improvement

“What he did, that’s inexcusable.” – “Football Night’s” Rodney Harrison on Vince Young

NEW YORK – November 21, 2010 – Following are highlights from NBC Sports’ “Football Night in America.” Bob Costas hosted the show live from Lincoln Financial Field and was joined on site for commentary by Al Michaels and Cris Collinsworth. Co-host Dan Patrick, analysts Tony Dungy and Rodney Harrison, and reporters Peter King and Mike Florio covered the news of the NFL’s eleventh week live from NBC’s 30 Rockefeller Plaza studios. Alex Flanagan reported from Gillette Stadium in Foxboro, Mass., on the Colts-Patriots game.

Patrick & Dungy on Mike Vick

http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/22825103/vp/40306678#40306678

MIKE VICK INTERVIEW: Bob Costas’ interview with Mike Vick:

Tony Dungy reacts to the Mike Vick interview

DUNGY REACTS TO VICK INTERVIEW: Dungy, who has mentored Vick, reacted to his comments in a ‘Football Night’ interview with Patrick.

ON EAGLES

Costas on Vick: “This is a genuinely unique player.”

Michaels: “Over the past 25 years, the most spectacular performances individually I can remember on a primetime game: ‘86 Bo Jackson runs around the left side, runs over Brian Bosworth, runs through the tunnel, winds up in Tacoma. That was Bo Jackson’s introduction to the NFL; ‘93 had Brett Favre the day after his father passed away. That spectacular performance he had against Oakland; and the third of that trilogy would have to be what Michael Vick did last Monday night, which was over the moon.”

Collinsworth: “You’re talking about in Michael Vick a guy that has 11 touchdown passes, zero interceptions, and without any argument is the most exciting player playing the game right now.”

ON COLTS-PATRIOTS

Dungy: “This is the one time New England needed a stop and they got it in second half.”

Harrison: “The last four years they haven’t been able to stop…for this defense to come up with the most critical play in the game, it gives them a lot of confidence.”

Dungy: “Bill Belichick punted this year and relied on his defense, and they came through for him.”

Patrick: “You’re watching that and I said, ‘Why not settle for the field goal?’ You said, ‘It’s not in Peyton’s DNA.’”

Dungy: “They were going for the win. He thinks he had it. He’ll be thinking about this throw for a long, long time.”

Dungy: “My big winner today is the New England Patriots. That was a great win (and) winning back-to-back against Pittsburgh and Indy. Their defense finally coming up with that stop when they needed it. A great, great win for them.”

ON TITANS

King: “I asked Jeff Fisher after the game, ‘Is Vince Young your quarterback of the future?’ He said, ‘We’ll talk about that at the end of the year. I’m not going there right now,’ which leads you to believe that obviously there’s some question about him being the quarterback of the future. But Bud Adams, the owner of the Titans, there’s no question he wants Vince Young to be the quarterback of the future and there is the problem.”

Harrison: “I’m very disappointed in Vince Young. I thought he got over this immature stage in his career. He’s the quarterback, the starting quarterback, on this team. Guys look up to him. He’s supposed to be a leader. What he did, that’s inexcusable.”

Dungy on Randy Moss: “I didn’t see how this was going to work. Maybe it will but he didn’t catch a lot of balls from Tom Brady and he didn’t catch a lot of balls from Brett Favre. How is he going to catch a lot of balls from whoever the Titans quarterback ends up being.”

ON TEXANS-JETS

Dungy: “The Jets have won these games. They believe in Rex Ryan. They believe in (Mark) Sanchez that they can make these plays at the end but they got a lot of help from Houston. We saw Houston blow one last week the same way. That was inexcusable at the end of this game. You got to use outside technique. The coaches had their corners playing inside technique when there’s no timeouts left.”

Harrison: “No timeouts. Free safety Eugene Wilson has to understand that Braylon Edwards, he’s the go-to guy deep. He has to keep him inside and force the ball to be thrown inside…”

Dungy: “There’s no way, with no timeouts and that short of time, you can’t let a guy catch the ball on the sideline. All those defenders should have been outside protecting the sideline. Make them throw the ball in the middle of the field.”

Harrison: “This happened two weeks in a row. Somebody on that defensive side of the ball needs to be fired.”

Dungy on if the Jets are lucky or good: “Both. Mark Sanchez is making plays. He’s got them believing. They have big play guys. Santonio Holmes has given them a big lift. But the last two weeks we’ve seen dropped interceptions by Cleveland, bad coverage here. But, they’re good enough to take advantage of it.”

Harrison: “(Sanchez’s) going to have to continue to make plays because they’re not running the ball and that defense isn’t as strong as it was last year.”

ON STEELERS

Dungy on translating Mike Tomlin’s postgame comments: “The officials let this game get out of hand. It was ridiculous. If I say that as Mike Tomlin, I’m going to get fined so I’ll let Tony Dungy say it for him.”

ON VIKINGS

Dungy on possibly benching Brett Favre: “I’m not sure what he’s going to do but, if I’m Brad Childress, I’m playing him because I’m still trying to win games and I think he gives me the best chance to win.”

Harrison: “How’s he giving you the best chance of winning? You’re 3-7 with this guy. He’s thrown 20 interceptions. How does that give you a better chance to win?”

Dungy: “I went and got him because I didn’t think Tavares Jackson was as good.”

Harrison: “But he’s not good right now.”

ON BUCCANEERS

Dungy: “This is a team to look out for down the stretch.”

ON FALCONS

Harrison: “Atlanta is a really good team. If they want to be an elite team, they have to score more touchdowns in the red zone.”

ON BILL PARCELLS

King: “I talked to Parcells yesterday and he said, ‘No. I’m not coaching again.’ And I don’t think Parcells is going to do that franchise architect kind of thing. He’s going to be 70 years old next opening day.”

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