Grant Wistrom Game Quotations

It's going to be a 60-minute battle. I practiced against him for six years, but Orlando's practice speed and his game speed are two different things. I'm going to have to work.

Their running game was rendered useless early on. Any time you can force a team to be one-dimensional, it sets the tone for the entire game.

These are the games that help build confidence. But also you look back at them later on down the line and they're the reason why you have home-field advantage or a first-round bye in the playoffs, because you win those close games.

A game like this last year, who knows if we win it or lose it? We couldn't have gone 0-2, and to go out and have the defense finish a game for us, it's a step in the right direction.

When we have a 21-point lead at halftime, those are football games we have to win on defense. Our offense can go out there and go three-and-out every series, but defensively we should still go out there and be able to win those football games.

We blew a number of games we should have won defensively. It all goes back to that first game when we lost and people like to make a bigger deal out of it than it was.

It picks up. You're facing these guys twice a year. They know you, and you know them, so the intensity is there. It's a game we've got to win.

Steve Smith is arguably the best receiver in the game right now, and we just shut him down completely.

We can't blame this game on anyone but ourselves. Losing the Super Bowl is about as bad as it gets.

We're not going to blame this game on anyone but ourselves. We lost the game. They played better than we did. They didn't make the mistakes. ... They didn't make the penalties, and we did.

We're not going to blame this game on anyone but ourselves.

You have to really know who's in the ballgame because that's going to affect what type of plays they're going to run. The guys on the backside really have to keep the edge because Parker's not afraid to take it all the way around the other way.