All of those really big hits I remember. I put one on him. I've given people a lot of those. |
As a defense, we want to go into every game and have our offense and the rest of the team rely on us. We pulled it off a second week in a row, and I hope we can keep doing it. |
Everybody knows and understands what Coach Dungy wants out of the defense. Once we figured it out, it was easy for us to go out and play fast, play hard. |
He's a big back who runs hard and he has great feet. You just have to make sure you get lower than he does and run through him, don't stop your feet. You don't want to try to arm-tackle him, because he runs through arm tackles like they're nothing. It's almost not fair, him having that size and those feet. It's a crazy thing. |
He's getting a lot of pressure in the backfield, stopping a lot of runs. That helps so much. One of our big problems last year was we gave up too many big runs. |
I always thought that if I didn't feel it, the other person was hurting more. But I've realized over time that if I hit somebody and it hurts me, it hurts them even more. It depends on the way I feel. |
I got into it that I'm going to win every time. It doesn't matter the size, height, weight, whatever. I really don't care. I'm not afraid of going in there, putting my body in there and making a tackle against a big guy. |
I guess 'harassing' is a good way to describe us. |
I hope by now people realize that we're going to play as tough as anybody. I really don't know what it's going to take for us to shake that [label] but, if you play us, you find out that we're not trying to finesse anyone, man. |
I think everybody has the same attitude, |
I think everybody has the same attitude. It's like we have something to prove. Last year, our rush defense was not as good as we wanted. This year, we've got Corey. |
I think so. What do you have to lose? I think they're going to throw everything at us. We'll have enough game plan to know that we just make sure we read our keys and do what we have to do to win. |
I think that sparked something for us. We had been doing it all year, hitting hard, playing tough, playing physical, but I think being on that big Monday Night Football stage and playing a physical team like the Steelers made people notice. |
I think we did make a statement, because we played one of the most physical teams in the league. |
I'm really going to have to pay attention to Hines because I come down to the box a lot, and he likes to crack people. I have to be aware of where he is on the field. |