He's the toughest guy, pound-for-pound, in the league. |
I hate it for Rodney that he got injured because that was one of those marquee tests for myself that I looked forward to. You want to match up with a high quality player like that. |
I know the history of the Falcons. It's always been tough to double up. |
I've always said that any game won is a blessing. If you've ever seen my reaction on the road after we won a game, I was always super excited because I know how tough it is to win one game. |
Last year the ball bounced our way a little more, and we were able to take advantage of it. The only thing I'm disappointed in is that stat-wise we've made improvements almost across the board, but we haven't found what it took to win the game. |
Look at our linemen compared to other linemen around the league. We're smaller, faster-running linemen. If one guy overruns the play, another guy is right there cleaning up his garbage. Everybody takes care of everybody else in this running game. |
Running the ball kind of takes the heart out of them. It's been the key to our game all season. |
Some guys are system guys, but he's one of those who'd succeed anywhere. He's one of those guys where you just give him a cleats and a helmet, and he'll the best player on the field. |
The goal is to have better numbers with more balance, |
There were some nice looks, we just couldn't get some things taken care of. My job is 50-50. One part of that 50 percent, I've done a hell of a job with. Now I've got to get the ball thrown in my direction. |
We have a 3-yard, 4-yard, 5-yard, 20-yard premise. It's going to be 3, 4, 5, then 3, 4, 5, then we're going to hit a 20. That's how we've done it, and we've hit a lot bigger runs than that. We're stubborn. We know we're going to keep doing what we do. |
We saw a lot of different looks out there. We've always been a team that's capable of adjusting to different things and we've always been able to adjust on the fly. We didn't adjust quite fast enough today. That's why they're the champs and until somebody takes it away from them, they're still the champs. |
We were only down by three and I really felt like we could get it done. The other team over there, they played some good football today. I am going to give those guys some credit. |
We're fine, and that's all that matters to me. I don't care what anybody else thinks. |
When it all boils down, I know where I'm going to be, the fans know where I'm going to be, other teams know where I'm going to be and I know my teammates damn-sure know where I'm going to be. That's all the matters. |