We used that until they wrecked one of theirs. |
We were focused on what was at hand ... this season, this game here. It's kind of hard to look ahead sometimes and try to see the light, but that was the light. The light was we lost last year in the Super Bowl, and we're trying to get back there. ... We're all pushing for that same goal. |
We were ready to go from the jump, |
We're just giving up too many big plays, ... We've got to stop giving up so many big plays. |
We're more of a unit this season; that's why we're better, |
We've been through so much before as a team, all those big games that we have lost and the way that we have been able to rebound, |
We've got to get back to putting pressure on the other side of the ball. |
When I went to the Pro Bowl in Hawaii with my family, I was still in shock. That loss definitely fueled my fire this offseason. |
When you replace a Jeremiah a year ago and try to replace Hugh this year, we would never ask those guys to be those players. We just ask them to bring what they bring to the table, and hopefully it'll add to what we already have. But I would never say anybody could replace what we lost in Hugh. No one person could ever do that for us. Because what he brought wasn't just on the field, but in the locker room also. |
Winning does something to you. It releases something in you, it's confidence and you get that nasty taste of losing out of your mouth. You get that losing mentality out of your system. That first game is going to be critical. Once we get that first game, hopefully it will be this week, we can start doing what we need to do for the rest of the season. |
With the additions we've made and the maturation of Donovan, we should be better, |
You always say the sky's the limit. But we kind of know what we can do, and this year we're going to set out to do it. |
You could see the frustration in his eyes, ... ... knowing Collins would probably go in a different direction. You look for that kind of stuff on film, for the frustration in a guy that would cause him to not run routes as hard or seem as enthused. People look for a lot of things in T.O. That's not one of them. |
You get ready to roll. There are things you have to deal with and as a professional. You handle it and move on. |
You have peaks and valleys. At the end, after you've handled everything you need to handle in those valleys, you come back up in those peaks. We're at one of the peaks right now. |