That's easy. Thomas kept [the defense] on the sideline and gave us a chance to get a break. |
That's our guy, and everyone knows it. He's our leader out there. He gets us going ? the whole team, not just the defense. |
The guy's unbelievable. He made a lot of plays. |
The last couple of years we got off to bad starts, 0-4, 1-5, |
The No. 1 thing is you have to be able to protect the quarterback, ... If we put pressure on him and stop the run, we'll put ourselves in some good situations. |
The thing is, I don't make a lot of big plays, but our team is really good. We make a lot of plays on defense. I don't know if that is going to help me out or not. The No. 1 thing is we won the division. We had a great season. Win [the award] or not, I don't care because we won and that's all that matters. |
There was no doubt in anyone's mind we had the personnel to do it. |
There's a lot of stuff we need to correct. |
They have fun. They fly around and they're always smiling. They don't know when they screw up. |
They kept a lot of guys in and only had two or three out on the routes. We thought we would get pressure with four, and they kept seven or eight in to block. |
They're a different team. So are we. |
Things have gotten better on defence. It looks like our whole team has gotten better. We just have to go out there and do it on Sundays. We can talk all we want, but until we go out there and prove it, it doesn't mean anything. |
This is tough for our team, too, because he was one of our leaders. One of the emotional guys out there on the field. He's just an unbelievable guy. At least he didn't injure himself bad. I know that's a blessing for him. |
This whole season was a blessing. |
This whole season was a blessing. To go through what I went through last year, it was just so frustrating. ... I was mad when (the overrated tag) came out, frustrated, but the people who know me — my teammates, the organization — know what type of player I am. |