I thought I had the ball, to be totally honest. It was just thrown a little bit above my outstretched hands. |
I thought I timed it well. The ball just stayed up there. |
I'm surprised that it healed up as quickly as it did, ... but in this industry, you've got to be out there and you've got to play. |
Is it still going to be Monday Night Football or is it like Sunday night football on ESPN? ... There was a lot of tradition with that Monday night crew. I'll have to tune in to see if it still gives me that same chill when I hear that intro. |
It says a whole hell of a lot, |
It was a hell of a defensive game and it started up front with those guys. My hat goes off to them, Courtney Brown, Gerard Warren, Ebenezer Ekuban, Michael Myers. They did what they were supposed to do -- that they were brought in to do. |
It's always great when a defense is able to create turnovers and score. That's something we missed last year. We'd get some turnovers, but we never scored points. |
Last game, I told (Williams) and Domonique Foxworth, I said, 'You guys have something as rookies that I didn't have when I was a rookie, and that's called confidence,' ... They have that swagger to them where they're not really intimidated. |
On that play, no one could tell me that ball wasn't mine. It just seemed it kind of floated right over the top of me. It was that type of game; things like that happen. |
People were talking about their record and how good we were playing, and this should be a blowout game, but I didn't buy into any of that, because I watched this team on film -- offense and defense. Yes, Ray Lewis was out and Jamal Lewis didn't play, but they had other players on their team. |
Sometimes it's just pure luck because what are the chances of a running back in this league fumbling like that? Very, very slim. |
That's how the game goes. Sometimes it bounces your way and you make a play that play. We didn't have the ball bounce our way and we had that this year. It just so happens in this particular game we didn't get a lot of that. I thought Champ was going to make another spectacular play like he has all year, but he didn't make the play. |
The first thing I thought was, man, normally that's us coming up with that type of play. |
There's probably going to be a little trash-taking, but nothing too serious, |
They didn't really do anything that surprised us. I think we had an excellent game plan, and we just didn't execute. |