It's something he should be proud of. He won't say a lot of about it because he's a humble guy, but I think he is very proud of it. And he should be. |
It's the first game, a home game, the Saints. You've got to win that one and we didn't do that. It's not going to get any easier as we go on. |
It's tough man. When you go in, battle back and have a chance to win it, it's on your back as a defense to stop them. |
It's tough, very tough, ... especially seeing us playing Maine and barely beating them 25-7. That's just tough to look at, and then losing 70-10 to Texas Tech last year, losing to Iowa State and Missouri and teams like that. That just didn't go on at Nebraska. That's tough to see. |
Ken Lucas definitely brought an attitude to our football team. |
Look at a guy like Sam. He didn't speak all the time, but when he spoke, it meant something. |
No, for real. I told you early in the week that we were the type of team that, with our backs against the wall, performs. |
Now we don't even have to talk. I just look at him, and he knows what I'm going to do. I know what he's going to do. |
Oh, he'll be back. He's a gamer. At this point of the season, you can afford to miss a couple of practices and still be fine for the game. You've played enough football that rust is not going to set in at this point. |
Once the game starts, the speed of the game. The game seems like it's an hour long. It goes so fast. Every play counts. It means something. In the regular season, every play doesn't mean something. In the playoffs, it does. |
One of the reasons why is because everybody thinks Coach (John) Fox does it. Here is this (former) defensive coordinator (in Fox); he comes here and all of a sudden the defense is good. A lot of people just think that's what it is. |
Our big guys were getting after (Harrington) and we put a lot of pressure on him. |
Our confidence is all right. |
People always talk about the front seven stopping the run or not stopping the run. But it takes all 11 guys to stop the run, and all 11 didn't do that. |
Pound the ball. Pound the ball and set up the pass off that and play great defense. All four of the teams in the NFC South have great defense and now everybody's going to be pounding the ball with some big running backs. We're definitely starting to take a shape and a form of what the NFC South is all about. |