The hardest thing about getting to Brady is his quick release. We wanted to pressure him, but you can't sack the quarterback when he doesn't have the ball. He did a good job of getting rid of it. |
The second half we played like us. The first half, it was a bunch of strangers [out there]. |
Those guys, they work in a short space, so they're more quick-footed guys rather than having straight-out speed. But yeah, to be that big and still move and change direction the way they do, that's what makes them special. Otherwise, every 340-pound man in American would come out to play football. |
We definitely still have something to prove on the road, because we've not played nearly as well on the road as we have at home, ... We've got to rise up and challenge ourselves to play better on the road. |
We didn't do a good job getting to the quarterback. It's our responsibility to get there in three or four seconds. We can't put that much pressure on our defensive backs. |
We don't care about back-to-back winning seasons. Going 9-7 isn't good enough. Last year, we were two wins short of where we wanted to be. |
We finally got the gang back together. It was important for us to play together for a little bit leading into the regular season. We were practicing all week together as a unit, and I think that was good for us. We're looking to raise it up another level heading into next week. |
We have a lot of guys on this defense who play with a passion, so adding another one is great. The more the merrier. He's got such a positive approach. He not only tells us we're going to win, he tells the other team we're going to win. He loves to run his mouth. I do a little of that myself, but he does it even more. He plays with a supreme confidence. |
When I was going into the last year of my first contract and you see him and other people chasing him, I said, 'You know what? I'm going to stay here. I'm going to stay on his side,' |
When you have a performance like that, people might say, 'Uh-oh. Maybe that's our defense. Maybe what's happened up to this point has been a fluke,' ... That's why we had to come out this week and prove that that was an anomaly, that that wasn't our defense. We came out here and showed that today. We showed the way we can play against a great offense. |