Head Coach Norv Turner

On today's practice:
"We had a good practice. We have good energy and I think that comes from being fresh. As I said, we've been extremely focused all week."

How does today compare to previous Fridays?
"One of the things this team has done is practice at a really high level, a consistently high level, all season on Fridays. That's where we really fine tune what we're doing. We make it less physical. We make it more about quickness and execution and assignments. That's been something that has really helped this team play well and play well early in games. I don't think today was any different than we've practiced on Fridays."

Is this as focused of a team as you've had?
"This team is very focused. We've got guys that I think know how to prepare and have done that over the time I've been here."

Have you been monitoring the weather?
"It's kind of crazy to monitor the weather or give it a bunch of attention now. What I usually do is, about two hours before the game, go out and walk around the field and see what the weather is. Then you plan accordingly. All this speculation and spending hours talking about what it might be or might not be; we played well in all kinds of weather. We'll have a plan based on if it's windy, if it's rainy or if it's dry, whatever that might be."

What would you say is your biggest advantage against the Jets in this game?
"Like I said yesterday, when you get down to eight teams, every team is very good and every team is playing at a real high level. I'm not sure that there is an advantage for anybody. If we have an advantage it's obviously being at home. I refer back to our Cincinnati game and the way our crown reacted in that game. I thought our crowd was a big difference in that game. Through the third quarter they struggled offensively, they had a bunch of pre-snap errors, and I thought our crowd had a lot to do with that. I expect them to be as loud as they've ever been and that's obviously why you want to play at home."

Do you ever worry about your team coming out flat at the start?
"You're always concerned about that, but I don't use the word flat because that's an easy out for describing how a game went. If you don't convert on third downs; let's say you go out and you have a third and six the first series and you don't convert and you go three and out and then you have a situation where you don't convert again and turn it the other way around and the other team gets third and eight and they convert, third and six and they convert, and they put a drive together, people say they were flat. Well, maybe they didn't execute as well as you'd like, but I'm not sure flat is the right term in those cases."

Do you ever marvel at Nate Kaeding's consistency now that he's made so many in a row?
"The two things that I've learned about kickers is that you never take it for granted, and the other thing is if you have a kicker who doesn't take it for granted then he's got a heck of a chance of being as consistent as Nate is. Nate never takes a kick of granted. He goes in there and he's as focused as anyone I've been around. He's got a routine. He doesn't assume he's going to make it. He doesn't ever get bored with what his job is. That's why he's kicked at the level he's kicked."

Did you watch Neil Rackers kick last weekend for Arizona?
"I saw it on all the highlights. I saw it about 15 times, I think, on all the highlights"

What causes that? He's a very consistent kicker.
"That's why, as I said, I never assume it's an automatic. That's why I appreciate what Nate does so much."

Are you the only team that you know of to employ the skinny goal posts (on the practice field)?
"I don't know. I know Nate likes them. Just to tell you how he is, when it doesn't go through those and misses it by a foot or two feet, he doesn't ever say to himself that would have been good on the regular post. He wants to put it through those posts. That says something about him. It's easy to say it would have been good, but that's not the purpose of having those posts."

Does a wet field favor the Jets because they run the ball so much?
"I don't know. That one will be discussed at 4:45 if it's wet. Our guys have played extremely well on all kinds of surfaces. I don't think if it rains it will be a disadvantage to our football team." 

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