Opening Remarks: "These are the guys that will not play in the game: (LB Dedrick) Roper, (RDT) Ian Scott, (G/T) Shawn Andrews, (FS Brian) Dawk (Dawkins), (CB Dustin) Fox, (QB) Kelly Holcomb, (LB) Craig Kobel, (DE Jerome) McDougle, (RB Ryan) Moats, (LDT LaJuan) Ramsey, (G Stefan) Rodgers, (WR Bill) Sampy, and (TE L.J.) Smith. The one offense and defense will go for approximately a half, and (QB) Donovan (McNabb) I will see how he's doing through the first quarter and we'll see how it goes from there."

On whether McNabb will start: "Yeah, he'll start."

On why Andrews said that his injury was a "tear-jerker": "Well, Shawn's an emotional guy. He wants more than anybody to be out here and playing. That locker room can kind of be a rough place when you're not playing, you've got to get out here a little bit. But, in my opinion there's nobody that wants to be out there more than Shawn. He's frustrated. But the main thing, and really the only thing, that I care about right now is that he's getting better, and that he's doing."

On whether he expects Andrews to be ready for the season opener: "Yeah, I believe he will be. Yes."

On why Andrews made it sound like a career threatening injury: "That's him being Shawn. One thing that makes Shawn a good football player, he's an emotional football player. He showed you a little emotion yesterday and he wants back out on the field and he's just got to weather this thing and as frustrating as it is for him he's got to weather his foot and get back."

On whether the emotion Andrews showed was from him wanting to play not news from the doctor: "Yes."

On why he doesn't let players talk about injuries: "I'd rather just do it myself. I think it just works out better. I mean, we're taking this thing here and blowing it way out of perspective."

On what he wants to see from Donovan McNabb: "I'd like him just to get back into rhythm. I think with that will come confidence in his his game, and the leg and, his form, and so on. Just try to get him in a rhythm and back into the speed of a football game."

On how important it is to improve from last week's game: "It will get better. I can sit here and tell you a million different things. They're all excuses. Bottom line is I've got to do a better job as well as the coaches and the players. We'll see how we do tomorrow."

On why the players made mental mistakes on the opening drive of the last game: "To me they're excuses. We're all focused in on the why. I guess the one nice thing about having only a few days in between games is we can do something about it and focus in a little bit better tomorrow. So, we learn from it and try to get ourselves a little bit better."

On Brian Dawkins progression: "He did a great job yesterday. He went out and practiced, he practiced fast. Probably a little harder than what I anticipated him going out and doing. So, I thought he moved around very well."

On whether Dawkins will play in the Steelers game: "If we can, yeah. If we can. Again, unless there's a set back, he should have a shot at that."

On whether Dawkins is experiencing soreness: "Yeah, really that's what it is. You're dealing with the Achilles tendon. So, if there's soreness there you back off. Right now it's good, and you want to keep it that way. If through practice- we have a long week this next week- if through practice, it gets sore, and inflames on him then we've got to get him out of there."

On whether CB Lito Sheppard will play this week: "Lito will play. I can't tell you how many plays, I don't know. It won't be very many. He'll go out and take a shot at it."

On whether Sheppard will start: "Yeah, he'll start and we'll see how he does."

On when Ian Scott will play and how he fits in the defensive line rotation: "Well, that's a good question because we don't know Ian as well as some other players. He's new here. He's got soreness in there and he's had a bunch of different people look at him. There's still some soreness that remains. So, we've got to work through that and practice a little bit the last couple of days on the scout team and test the knee out. And, hopefully we can get him out there for the Pittsburgh game. But, we need to get him out there somewhere here so he has the opportunity to play."

On with LaJuan Ramsey being out, are you too thin at the defensive tackle position: "Oh we are. (LDT) Montae (Reagor) will have it there, too. So, you get those three guys back in there and you're okay."

On L.J. Smith's progress: "He's doing well, he's not ready yet. We're going to get him back out there. He's still tender. It's in the groin, in the muscle, again not directly related to the sports hernia. But, we've seen this with the sports hernia where the groin area does get tender. This is right in the body of the groin muscle. We'll see how he does this next week. He is getting better. But he is still tender there."

On whether Smith slows down the rehab because of this: "You're not. You treat it like you would a groin injury. The rest of it- the surgery he had is fine. It's all intact. It's been double checked and triple checked. I think that was the scary part."

On how much QB Kevin Kolb will play Friday: "Somewhere between a quarter and a half in the second half. This was going to be Kelly's (Holcomb) week down, and (QB) A.J. (Feeley) was going to take maybe a quarter. We'll just see how it goes with Donovan and then I was going to give the rest to Kevin."

On what G Scott Young gives him when Andrews is out: "Scott's done a nice job. We're rotating (G) Max (Jean-Gilles) in there so Max is going to start. Scott started last week. Max is going to start this week. But Scott has been very consistent, he's a strong player, he played both sides along with center. I think every year we've had him here he's gotten better. I think that will continue the more he plays." 

On what he looks for in McNabb: "Just see how he feels. Is his knee sore? Has he absorbed too many hits? Whatever it might be."

On whether he plans to switch the holders on Friday: "(P) Sav's (Rocca) going to start the first half as a punter and then he'll start also as a holder."

On who will be the third receiver rotation: "(WR) Jason Avant."

On whether it was tough to evaluate the Baltimore game: "Well, the first game is always tough. I just want to get out and see the guys play aggressive football, and we could've done a better job with that. I put the coaches and the players a little bit of a bind just because I didn't let them practice against the opposing team until that last 10/10/10. So, when you're dealing with a team that happens to be a 3-4 front, who likes to blitz, there's going to be some issues. The bottom line is we've got to do a better job at just playing. Just playing aggressive football, you can't lose that part of it. 

On whether TE Brent Celek will start: "Celek will rotate with the ones. He's not going to start but he'll rotate in with the ones."

On where RB Tony Hunt will rotate: "With the ones, that's where you'll see Tony. With the short yard and goal line situation."