Aaron Smith does so much stuff that he doesn't get credit for. He's one of the toughest football players I've known in my life. He never misses practice. He takes his hard hat to work every day, never complains, just does his job. You don't hear him whining. He just lines up and plays the next snap. |
As a team, We're not really thinking about the streak. We aren't focused right now on the big picture. |
But it's just like any other game -- we're the outside linebackers. That's half our job. Sometimes we got to put pressure on the quarterback, sometimes we got to cover. |
Catches everything that comes his way, has soft hands and great balance. He goes and gets the ball. |
Chapter three. It's kind of ironic -- they won here and we won there. We're familiar with them, they're familiar with us. We got to go out and play our best game. |
Coach Cowher mentioned last week that we're still building our identity. I think we've put the cement down and we've got some two-by-fours up, but we've still got a long way to go. We've only played two football games, there's still a lot of football to be played. |
Every team we face thinks we are a measuring stick. They all know that's the measuring stick - to be as physical as we are. |
Everybody came up with the resolve -- no more of this. We come out here in front of our home crowd, it's the first game of the season, and they just ran the ball and passed the ball down our throats. They executed way better than us. Once we got that emotional edge off, just being over-amped for the game, we settled down. We did our job and did what he had to do. |
Everybody's worried about him. You can see the center, the quarterback always pointing at him -- 'Watch number 43! Watch number 43!' -- and looking where he's at. I think he draws most of the attention, so everyone else flies below the radar. |
He just made some passes and they got some yardage, ... They executed better. But it's the third week of the season. We'll correct our mistakes. |
He's got three rings. There's nothing else you can say. |
He's not the kind of guy who needs any extra chips on his shoulder. He just needs to be out on the field for warm-ups, that's all. |
He's one of the coolest characters in the business. Everybody here is a kid at heart, but he just shows it. |
I didn't even know (about it). That's not our focus. Our focus is just to get better and be around in the playoffs. |
I don't know if this is my time, |