This can get to anybody if you let it, because it seems to be endless and you get bombarded from all sides. But it goes with the territory, and if you are one of the two teams fortunate enough to make it to the Super Bowl, you had better be prepared to deal with a ton of distractions. |
To be able to make those quick strikes and zap them a bit gave us a boost. |
We didn't focus. I reminded everybody before we went out there that we had to focus, but we lost our concentration -- and you saw the result. |
We go out there and do our job from the beginning, it might not be quite as loud. |
We worked on that all week. I'm really proud of the guys. That's one of the parts of the running game that helped us -- we didn't have to overcome a 5-yard penalty a couple times here and there. Even if there's a 2-yard gain it was positive. We were moving in the right direction. |
We're just going about business and doing things. We're not sitting on where we are. We're trying to improve. |
We're our defense's ally, ... We have to get out there and eat up the clock. We have to win the possession game, keep them off the field and keep our defense fresh. |
We're still trying to figure out exactly how much he played. I think it grows. I think he gets a little more playing time every year. |
We've always been able to plug guys in and still be successful. There's not as much concern inside this locker room as there is on the outside. |
We've worked real hard on that. |
What Jerome means to everybody in that locker room is something special and I think what he means to the organization is something special. If anybody in this organization, team or locker room deserves it, he does because of what he means to us and what he has maintained as the identity of this organization for so long. |
When you get a chance to prove somebody wrong, much less the entire country, you gotta relish that. |
When you've got 50-plus guys doing it one way, those guys will adapt. It may not be who they were, but it's who they became. |
Willie might be a key in this game just because of his speed. They have some fast linebackers, but Willie can outrun any of them. |
Would you want someone doing that in your life? If they don't like how the highway is repaired, are they going to harass them? You go to that bound, that's not right. You're not going to want it to happen to you, but sometimes people don't think that way. Sports brings out the fire in you. |