Our goal is to keep him from making big plays, but you also have to be careful with focusing everything on him. Because the thing is, they have a team full of stars. (Running back) Rudi Johnson might get going while you're focusing on Chad, then you go after Rudi, and Chad comes back and strikes. He can cause a lot of problems for you. |
Our rivalries are the conference games. But as far as trying to determine who's king of the hill, the Patriots are the king. |
Pittsburgh was a great place. I was limited to just play in the middle of the field, but I have the ability to play either safety. |
Sometimes, it does, but it can motivate you. That was a different day, a different era. The game has changed 10 times to one since they played, but with them being as dominant as they were, they give you a foundation you want to build off of. |
Teams come in here and try to do all kinds of things to get under our skin. And when we try to match it, [the officials] look at us as the bad boys, like we're trying to intimidate everyone. |
There will be times we have to go to a meeting in five minutes, and he'll say, I'm going to sleep for three minutes. Wake me up. |
There's no specific play that lost the game. Any time you lose and you lose in the dramatic way like we lost, and we had an opportunity to win, you're frustrated about just losing, period, ... It's hard enough to win a game in the NFL every Sunday, but the games you feel like you should definitely win, it just leaves a bad taste in your mouth. |
There's no specific play that lost the game. Any time you lose and you lose in the dramatic way like we lost, and we had an opportunity to win, you're frustrated about just losing, period. It's hard enough to win a game in the NFL every Sunday, but the games you feel like you should definitely win, it just leaves a bad taste in your mouth. |
They ain't nothing but another game on our schedule, ... If I had an opportunity to see the future, looking back at how we played last year and how it turned out last year, I'd let them win the first one this time. |
They just take what you give them, ... If we're trying to be the No. 1 defense, we've got to stop a team like that. We had to come up with a stop late and we didn't. |
To win after nobody thought we could - sixth seed, three playoff games on the road - was more special than if we had won last year when we were the cream of the crop. |
Troy is different. He is not what people think of as your typical professional athlete. |
We had to win, so we went out and did it. But it has to be about one game at a time from here on in. |
We haven't peaked yet, because we're still making mistakes. We still have things to clean up. The thing about this team is everybody wants to keep on getting better. Nobody around here thinks they're playing their best football. We don't have egos like that. We're going to get back to practicing hard and go about the business of taking this next one like we've done the whole way: One game at a time. |
We love the challenge of it. It's when we play our best football. Guys are more focused. We can go in there and take the crowd out of it. We like that pressure. It allows us more attention to detail. |