I want to prove to the coaches and my teammates I can carry 25 times and still come out of a game healthy. |
I want to prove to the coaches and to my teammates that I can carry 25 times and still come out of the game OK . . . I think I can be that kind of back. I just have to show them what I can do when I get the chance. |
I was just being patient, waiting for my time. I told my teammates the last couple games I have been breaking some runs, but not going the distance and taking it the whole way and next time I get a chance I am going to go all out. |
I'll suck it up and go ahead and play. I don't know about starting, but I'll play special teams if I have to. |
I'm happy the way it's going, ... I come in kind of fresh, give Mike a blow and we go like that. |
I'm not rusty and I'll be ready to go when they call on me. I have to work my way to being a starter and I feel like I'm right around the corner. |
It's more difficult. Somebody's coming every play and you don't know where they're coming from. It's tricky. |
It's realistic. It's going to be a hard game and they got the best run defense in the league, but we run the ball real good. I don't think we'll miss a beat with Mike being out. |
It's very realistic. It's going to be a hard game. They've got the best run defense, but we run the ball pretty good. . . . I feel like if I get a couple big ones, get going a little bit. Just get going early, that's the big thing. |
Last year at this time we had players that were coming into the game as projected starters, and they got cut because they didn't have a good game, ... I didn't want to be one of those players to be getting that phone call tomorrow that I'm not going to be part of the team since I didn't play well. I just tried to leave everything on the line and just play. |
Mike is still the starter, so obviously he's doing something that I am not, |
My teammates and coaches have been on me the last couple games about breaking a run without taking it the whole way, and I told them next time I have a chance, I've got to go all out, |
On film, they've been showing us that they've been dominating everybody, that running backs haven't really been able to run on them, ... We feel like we can run on anybody, especially with our (offensive) line. |
Right from the beginning of training camp and all throughout the off-season Mike was going with the No. 1s from the get-go, |
The home fans are hollering and you go out there and shut them up. That's the best feeling. |