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“Oftentimes, you have to be able to throw it in order to run it.”
“Tackling still comes down to leverage and owning that leverage and making your hits.”
“Our central theme is, How good you can get? How hard can I go to see how good you can get?”
“Our intent of how we're going to play doesn't change.”
“Each game we play, every game is a championship-game mindset.”
“Sometimes there are some matchups and man-to-mans that you like to match up on.”
“I think it's important that we go through everything together as a team.”
“What we can control is our readiness.”
“It's that preparation that goes into each week. We have a term: 'Trust your training, trust your teammate, and trust yourself.'”
“For me, trying to connect our team together is so important. I know we'll play really well when our team gets really tight. So I want to make sure I connect with the players so that I can help them be at their best.”
“I think, No. 1, I still have a long way to go.”
“We want to play a really physical style ball, and so, for us tackling, we know we are shoulder-based tackling team, and we want to hit that strike zone just like you're throwing fastballs into that catchers' mitt just as hard as you can.”
“Number one, from a tackling standpoint, we teach strike zone hits, and we want to hit absolutely as hard as we can in that strike zone, and that's absolutely what we call a batter in the batters box from the chest all the way down to the knees.”
“When you have that connection to say, 'I'm going to play for something bigger than myself,' man, you have a chance to do something good.”
“The third-down sacks are critical ones, 'cause that's getting off the field.”
“The most important thing to me is how hard we go after the ball and take care of it.”
“We're not Seattle East. We're our own Atlanta, and there are definitely things I learned from Coach Carroll. He had probably the single biggest influence on my coaching career.”
“One of my strengths is connecting with the players.”
“When you are hoping for a call or want something different, I think you lose your edge.”
“I don't second-guess our playcalling or wanting to throw it. Honestly, we've got terrific guys. We know how to matchup. We know how to get open. That part of our game is so intact.”