«To have the story of the Super Bowl be the officials, that is crazy.»

«I wanted us to win the Super Bowl and ride off on a white horse.»

«I never in my wildest dreams thought he'd be playing for somebody else.»

«That was very distasteful, our having to jump into something like that and retaliate, so to speak. I was very surprised that the special master came back with the ruling he did. It doesn't make any sense to me. But he did. And we lost a very fine football player.»

«We probably should have placed the franchise tag on him. But I was not involved in the negotiations. We thought putting the transition tag on him would put us in a position to sign him to a long-term contract. But it blew up on us. Never in my wildest dreams did I think we would lose him. Steve always made it clear to me he liked Seattle.»

«That was very distasteful to me, to retaliate so to speak like that (against the Vikings). I do believe the commissioner should look into these kind of clauses. We work so hard on trying to gain labor peace and a new collective bargaining agreement and then we as clubs allow agents to get cute and circumvent it. On the playing field there are rules and there are unwritten rules about how the game should be played in the spirit and the fairness of it all. It doesn't make sense to me that we had to lose such a fine football player this way. I was surprised by the ruling.»

«To have the story of the Super Bowl be the officials, that was crazy. I was more angry and frustrated by some of the calls that I was devastated.»

«He brought the team back when it was kind of grim. When you see a quarterback do that, it always tells me something about the player.»

«Whether it actually can be done or will be done, we'll see.»

«So I just asked them, give me some time on this. And they said, 'Fine.' It's no different than a player going into the last year of (his contract).»