It's just the end of the road for us. That is all we see. |
It's the No. 1 stat that we have to win. We always want to get the ball. Make tackles and get the ball. |
Just every day the progress that I made just continued to get better and better and all of a sudden I came to a point where . . . they tell me I can play, I feel like I can play . . . shoot, I know I can play . . . so let's just play. |
Life for me is just taking my time and making sure things are right one day at a time. The organization has been so supportive, and I'm not pressured with any timetable. My family and I are worried about my health, and we are just making sure I'm getting better. Football is something I love and I want to do, but I have to think about my wife and my sons to make sure everything is right. |
One day you wake up and you can't see your sons very clearly anymore because you've had a stroke, ... You can't walk right. Two days before, you're making tackles in the Pro Bowl, and then all of a sudden your vision on your left side, you can't see your right hand here. It was a traumatic experience. |
Schematically, it doesn't really change things, ... We'll still do a lot of the same things, but guys will just be asked to sort of do different things. |
Schematically, it doesn't really change things. We'll still do a lot of the same things, but guys will just be asked to sort of do different things. |
She's a wonderful wife, ... She's strong-willed. She can help me out in times of weakness. I've had them. |
Since Day One, I've been impressed with him, ... When a new guy comes in, I want to check him out and see how he is, see how his attitude is, see if he's willing to be one of us the way we are in this locker room. With Corey, I remember talking to him in the parking lot, talking to him in the locker room and seeing where his mind was at. It was always in the right place, I felt. Never did I think, 'Maybe I should talk to this guy a little more and let him know how it is around here.' I felt he understood how it is from the beginning. |
The season is still young, |
The thing that people don't understand is you have three hours once you think you are experiencing a stroke to do something about it. If you can get to the hospital right away, you can get a clot-busting drug that could save your life. |
The way they look for football players here is important. Scott and Bill are on the same page with what they want. It's like, if you're a defensive lineman, they don't care if you can press 400 pounds. They care if you can press a guard. |
The week preceding the game is just as important, if not more important, to prepare yourself mentally to make sure you know the ins and outs of the opposition. It's all about getting ready for Jacksonville. It's a one-game season. |
There was a time in my recuperation and healing where I just had to tell myself it is just time to get up and live your life the way you want to live, |
There were times in my mind that I thought I was done. I can't see. I can barely walk. How am I going to play football again? That's the way I felt. |