"You look at the family tree, so to speak, that he's put out there, and there's a reason why we've been so successful, it doesn't all come back to us. Jim has imparted a tremendous amount of knowledge on his assistants, and there's a reason why we've all been successful up to this point in our careers.""

""It was interesting last night we got the word right before we had meetings, and by the time I got out of the meetings, I had messages from all those 'brothers' that we have if you will. John Harbaugh, Steve Spagnuolo, everyone was checking on everyone else to make sure everyone was doing ok, and that's the way Jim would have wanted it.""

""He demanded excellence, and that's what you want,"" said McDermott.