Adrian took off, and it looked like they were little kids trying to hold on to a train. Man, that dude's just dangerous. |
All I was worried about was playing a lot, winning and playing hard. I just wanted to be the best football player I could be. |
I felt like I wasn't progressing, getting any better in the [defensive] tackle spot and I wanted to play. I had to really prove to the guys next to me that I was worth playing. |
I know this means a lot to my family because they always wanted me to have something they never had. They wanted me to have an opportunity to fulfill my dreams, so they're happy that I'm here and finally getting a chance to play pro football. |
If you listen to it too much it will mess your head up. |
It stings. It stings bad. |
It's a big competition. It's a challenge because you're going against the best of the best in the nation, competing to be the top guy at your position and competing to get in the first round and fulfill your own goals. |
That's not realistic football. You can't keep winning with just the run game. |
The majority of the plays, he really didn't know. He'd run past us when we were trying to block for him. |
They capitalized on our mistakes. They had the big plays. That was something we weren't able to do. |
They're very good. They've always been a good team. USC plays a different style of ball. Texas has all the potential in the world. Hopefully they'll make a run for it. |
This is my time to relax because I could have at least 20 games coming my way. It's a fine line between overdoing it and not doing enough. |
We are focusing on being consistent every day, and being tough and being physical. For us to contend for another championship, we have to physical, have to be tough, have to be focused. |
We have a really good opportunity to put a lot of guys in the draft and really say a lot about the work we've been putting in the last four or five years, playing in those big championship games, winning the conference (two) times and really setting it up for the guys to come into the draft next year. |
We have the guys to make this thing work. We have a lot of experience here. |