An Interview With:
ANDY REID

            ANDY REID:  Why don't you go ahead and fire away.

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           ANDY REID:  Troy Vincent has looked very well.  He practiced today and did a nice job running around.  Doesn't seem to be hindered by it right now.

            Q.  How important was it to get a look at him?

            ANDY REID:  We had a little bit of a prelim with that yesterday.  He ran around and did the warmups and the different drills and he looked good and had a good workout in the pool and then came back today and ran around and looked good.

            Q.  (Inaudible)

           ANDY REID:  Ike will probably not make it for this game.  He is still very sore, so he did go through some workouts and he's just struggling a little bit to make lateral cuts, running straight ahead he is doing fine, but I don't think he will go this week.

            Q.  (Inaudible)

           ANDY REID:  We'll go back to Philadelphia for a day and the way this situates is you have to ‑‑ you are forced into a situation where you have to look a week in advance and that goes a little bit against how coaches want to think, but because of the short changeover you have to do that so we're ready, we're prepared and we have everything set up for next week too.

            Q.  What do you think that this Playoff run is going to‑‑ (talking about Donovan McNabb) (inaudible) establishing them as Playoff players?

            ANDY REID:  Well, he's done a very nice job and it seems like the bigger the game has been, he's even played better.  I thought he played very well this year and he's just continuing to do that.  It's nice to see when all the lights are on that he shows up and does his best work.

            Q.  (Inaudible) was the team more excited on the  flight here ....

            ANDY REID:  It was the same demeanor.  It's hard to hear over Hugh, so it was all the same.

            Q.  The Rams mentioned earlier that in a lot of ways this game has more pressure than the Super Bowl does.  (Inaudible) having been through it yourself, do you feel the same way?

            ANDY REID:  Well, I think this is going to be a heck of a game.  I have told you before, we try to take every game as it is, one week at a time, and I think if you put enough emphasis in each week, then it pays off for you once you get to the Playoffs.  You are not overwhelmed by the games as you continue to move up.  That's what I have seen with our team.

            Q.  (Inaudible)?

            ANDY REID:  That we need experience?

            Q.  (Inaudible).

            ANDY REID:  I don't know that.  I think we'll be fine with our side of it.  The experience part of it, you see so many changeovers in the League this year and new people doing this every year, that no, I don't think it  ‑‑ I don't think it matters, the experience part of it.

            Q.  Have you done something different in practices for the dome?

            ANDY REID:  No, we have practiced inside, but that was because of the weather and not because of where we are playing.  We have played in domes the last couple of years and been in some loud situations and we just ‑‑ we don't worry about that.  We just move on.

            Q.  (Inaudible)

           ANDY REID:  As far as him missing practice or his status as being a great player?

            Q.  He's questionable.

            ANDY REID:  He was questionable last week, I believe and I believe he had a heck of a game.  We anticipate that he will play and play well and you know, get himself ready to go.

            Q.  (Inaudible)

           ANDY REID:  Hugh Douglas?  Hugh, oh, you are going to see a little bit.  Hugh is full of energy and he wakes up that way and I think he goes to bed that way.  He gets wound up for the games and that's contagious when you are around him.  You are either going to go crazy or you are going to enjoy the energy that he gives you.

            Q.  Do you go crazy or do you enjoy it?

            ANDY REID:  I did for a couple of weeks there when I first got here.  But I have changed my outlook on things.

            Q.  (Inaudible)

           ANDY REID:  I think you can take things from it.  I think both teams are improved, however.  I think the base offense and the base defense that the Rams run and likewise that we run, are still the same.  A lot of the players are still the same, so those matchups that we have, guys will be a bit familiar with each other and the schemes won't be brand new.  They prepared for them before, so, I think you can take a little bit from that.

            Q.  You hear so much about the Rams' speed.  Are they faster in the dome than they would have been on your turf?

            ANDY REID:  Well we have secret turf back there, so, it slows people down.  (Laughter).  They will be  ‑‑ they are fast and so I don't think it matters where you put them   ‑ they will be that.  That's okay.  We'll be fine there.

            Q.  (Inaudible)

           ANDY REID:  We come into every game where we're going it try to get to the quarterback.  That's the objective there, when the quarterback throws the football, if you are rushing, that you get there, so that won't change.  We're going to try to do that.  We're not going to take cheap shots or anything like that but we're going to try to get to the quarterback and do what we do.

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