John Thornton Quotations

We're just smarter on defense now. We made a lot of mistakes last season because we weren't communicating that well, but now we've really come together. We all understand where we're supposed to be and it shows.

If we would have blown the Chiefs out, it wouldn't have helped us next week. I know it looks bad today, but as players we just come back tomorrow and get ready.

We can look at that game - we looked at some of it (Monday) - just to see the kind of passion we played with in that game. Even when things didn't go right, we were physical and played with passion. That's how you have to play in this league. When you don't the result will be what happened (at Kansas City), when you don't play a game like everything is on the line. I think this team knows the type of attitude we have to play with.

Just to see the kind of passion we played with in that game, even when things didn't go right. That's how you've got to play. And when you don't, the result will be what happened (in Kansas City) when you don't play a game like everything's on the line.

Look at his legs, he can hold up in there. He's big enough against the run, too.

We've gotten good pressure. That's not a question. Teams know that. Some of the pressure we've had has led to interceptions. For some reason, we haven't gotten sacks, but that's really irrelevant to me.

Turnovers come in bunches. We know it's unlikely to continue. When they do, the important thing will be getting off the field on third down.

We beat those same teams, and we blew them out. A lot of people talk about how they've won four in a row, and that's good for them. But we beat those teams, too. I don't think that has anything to do with the playoffs. It's about who starts fast in this game and who makes the plays.

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There are going to be games when there will be adversity. You can't get down, because I don't think we're a fluke. A whole lot of people might think we're a fluke, and teams that think they're a fluke are going to get down on themselves.

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We need to go play well and get our confidence back. It'll be good in the sense that we have another game to play (before the playoffs). We haven't played well at home in the last three games.

When you look back on it three weeks from now, they'll add up the victories and they won't remember which ones were pretty.

Sacks are good - if you're up for your contract. You get turnovers, that's big. That's not saying we don't want sacks, but I'd rather have not lost a game than have a bunch of sacks.

As a pro player, you want to be respected.

That's how this league is. Everybody rides the hot team. We were one of the glamour boys in the league, and everybody wanted to talk about us and interview us. But now they're saying we're not that good. That's fine.

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It wasn't some huge game plan. You try to get turnovers. We just wanted to make tackles and not let Culpepper scramble.

It's about poise. It doesn't matter if it's your first time in or if you've been there before, it only matters what you do once you get there. Everybody has different stories about how they got in and what they did once they got there, but all that matters is you win now and you keep going.

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It's very rare for someone to be so short (priced),

It took the running game out. They still tried to run a few drives. Once we got up 14-0 and 21-0, we really didn't worry about the run game. It was just trying to keep Culpepper in the pocket and make him throw from there.

I know the perception is that we're struggling and Pittsburgh is peaking. That's where the underdog role comes from. But I don't think this team sees itself as an underdog.

He started the year at $21 (for the $1) because he was unknown to us but that didn't last long.

You want to come in playing well, but we're in, we're at home and there's a few other teams that would love to have that. So we've got to have fun with it.