I've seen teams win Super Bowls like that. Defense wins championships in this league, and I don't see why we should be any different. |
In the back of your mind, you're going, 'oh shoot, here we go again,' ... You might want to doubt yourself for a while again. But then you re-group. And think that it's good that it happened early in the season. It gives us a chance to have our identity in place by the time the season starts September 11. |
In this defense, this scheme, we need the ball to come out fast. I'm good with what happened. I'm getting a lot of calls from friends around the league. It's not going to take away from the year I am having. |
It says a lot about people who make predictions. |
It would be tough. You can't — you have to guess, you have to double-check everything. You have to game plan for a lot of stuff. |
It's not about spectacular numbers, it's about being steady. Not enough credit goes out to him. |
It's not an issue. And it won't be. We're all in this together. We, as a defense, know what we have to do. I won't lie to you and say there isn't more pressure on us, because there is. Deservedly so. Our quarterback went down. It's up to us to make sure we get the ball back for the offense and limit the scoring. We'll be OK if we do that. |
Now, he knows it's a business. He just comes to work every day and tries to work hard. |
On paper, we have the ability to be a top-three defense. That's on paper. Now we have to go out and do it. |
Some people have some personal goals they want to get. By the same token, we've got a chance to sweep the division and send a message for next season, too. |
Teams have been able to get after them. We're kind of in the same situation. We're almost mirror images of each other. The offenses haven't probably been doing as well as they want to, and the defenses have been playing solid and they've been winning on defense the games that they've won, same with us. What they're going to give us, we're going to give them. We just can't turn the ball over. |
That is tough. We win as a team, we lose as a team. That counts against the defense, but it's not going to take away from our efforts. It definitely is disappointing because that was a goal we had in the back of our minds. |
That's when I was kind of convinced we had something special. The front four were able to get after the quarterback. The defensive backs played well. The linebackers played well. It kind of came together. |
That's why they play 60 minutes. |
There's a big difference mentally between being 1-1 and 0-2. This, to me, is a game we have to have. |