“You double (team) me all day and you double Robert (Mathis) all day, the more doubles you deal out means somebody is going to get a single. We won the battle and we were outnumbered.”
“It's classic, old-school, defensive football. I think it's just a matter of playing together, knowing the scheme and getting comfortable with the scheme. It's like being in your house for a long time.”
“When you are coming full out and just exploding at an offensive player, ... you know before you hit him what you're going to do. You envision it and it's like he's not even there.”
“This defense is really predicated on getting a pass rush from the front four. When we go into the week, we're not thinking we have to carry the load. We carry the load every week.”
“If you look at Tampa Bay when he was there, he had a great defensive line with (Warren) Sapp and (Simeon) Rice. And the Vikings, you saw (John) Randle and (Chris) Doleman.”
“There is no reason we can't be elite. But let's not talk too soon. We have to have a consistent thing going on before we say we're right where we need to be.”
