Quotes from busy Wednesday

Carson Palmer: "You have to forget about last week quickly, whether it was a big win or a big loss. We're well beyond the Browns."

Marvin Lewis on newly-signed linebacker Dhani Jones: "It gives us, with the injuries we've had at linebacker, a guy who has played many football games at linebacker. We had an opportunity to watch him when he was on our practice fields (in August with the Saints). It was a told-fold thing (defense and special teams)."

Lewis on rookie Leon Hall: "He had a couple of bad plays. Leon will bounce back and play better football."

Lewis on Seahawks running back Shaun Alexander, who played at Boone County High School: "Great vision ... good receiver of the football ... He's as fine a running back as there is in the NFL. He still makes a lot of free defenders miss in the hole."

Defensive coordinator Chuck Bresnahan: "Until we play with a level of consistency on this defensive unit, we're going to continue to be very, very average. And they know that. We have to come out -- when you look at the 12-play sequence (in Cleveland) where we gave the game away, from about Play 40 through Play 52 -- it was on mental mistakes, stuff we've (practiced) the entire offseason. There's just no excuse for it. To me, is it close to being corrected? It's very easily correctable. But until we do it with consistency, we've got problems.

"So now the emphasis point this week is discipline in everything you do."