“Excuses and responsibility can’t co-exist.”
Those were ’s words following Sunday’s 33-17 victory over Cleveland. The second-year nose tackle was actually referring to the defense performing without and .
“Somebody has always got to step up and we always got to go out there and play,” Readers said. “Nobody is going to feel sorry for us when we lose somebody, or anybody so we got to go out there and we’ve got to step up every time.”
Reader could have said the same about himself. Even though he was sick, Reader did not want to leave his teammates without yet another starter in the front seven in Week 6.