The thing about Brett is he is such a talent and such a competitor that he is going to do everything within the framework of an offense -- and sometimes out of it -- to win a game, especially on a Monday night. I can't remember the last time he had a bad Monday night game. You are going to have to force him to have a bad game in the national spotlight. |
There's a lot of guys in this locker room who haven't won the whole thing before, me being one of them. I know how rare these opportunities are and you really have to take advantage of them. Jordan Gross , on the other hand, he thinks it's a damn walk in the park. It's his second one in three years. He thinks there's nothing to it. |
They did a heck of a job getting off the ball on us. They were beating us off the line. When you do that and you have speed rushers coming off the line, you really don't have much of a chance. We have one-on-one battles we have win and we also have to put ourselves in situations were they can't pin their ears back. |
They play that Tampa-2 that's not really Cover-2, where they bring safeties down. |
They proved that today. They beat us soundly. We were never in a position to take that football game. |
We couldn't run the football and that's a recipe for disaster for this football team. We need to run the football effectively and that helps to get Steve Smith in the game. It's like if we can't do one, we can't really do the other, unfortunately. |
We did a lot better job scheme-wise. The last time the protections were not built in to account for the extra guy they brought down. This time they were built in. If we didn't pick it up we had a tight end or safety do it. We were a lot more prepared. |
We ran better, we threw better, we blocked better. We just played a better game this week. |
We've played in a lot of loud places. I've heard this place is especially loud, and with this scenario I'm sure it's going to be ear-splitting. But there's always ways to quiet down the crowd, and we want to get to that point. Certainly, we'll have to use every tool at our disposal. |
You can point to that. You can point to the fact that we weren't able to run or get the ball to Steve Smith. That's a recipe for disaster for this football team. We need to run the football effectively, and that helps get Steve open. It's like we can't do one unless we do the other, unfortunately. |
You're never safe - No. 4 can do some amazing things back there. I've seen him do it many times. |