Cowboys QB Tony Romo believes the media is making his slow start with WR Roy Williams into something it is not, as quoted in the Dallas Morning News: "We've been through this before with people trying to intersect and divide us as a team. I know the media is going to make certain things appear what they may not have actually been. This team is too committed to winning … to let anything like that or anything you guys may present to divide us."

Titans DT Jovan Haye was surprised to be deactivated for the team's Week Eight matchup with the Jaguars, as quoted in the Rutherford County Daily News Journal: "I expected stuff like that maybe later on in my career, but not right now. But it's whatever. I can't control that. Or maybe I can control it."

Thursday, Nov. 5, 2009

Dolphins LB Joey Porter, quoted in the Boston Herald on his resentment for the Patriots that stems from "Camera-gate:" "I felt a certain way after some things came out, way back when. I was in Pittsburgh for some AFC championships that I've lost to them a couple of times, then come to figure out a month later why we lost. So, yeah, I have a natural hate for them — period. And that's just going to be with me forever. That's not ever going to change."