Chris Hope
Chris Hope
Christopher Pierre Hopeis a former American football safety in the National Football League. He played college football for Florida State University. He was drafted by the Pittsburgh Steelers in the third round of the 2002 NFL Draft, and has also played for the Tennessee Titans and Atlanta Falcons. He helped the Steelers win Super Bowl XL against the Seattle Seahawks...
biggest early easily lose mind opportunity stands time undefeated
Any time you lose when you have the opportunity to win, it's frustrating. Any time you lose, period, it's frustrating. But it's still early in the season. The biggest thing that stands out in my mind is that I think we could easily be undefeated right now.
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When we went up to Indianapolis the last time, the whole thing was, the Steelers are going to out-physical the Colts.
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Our rivalries are the conference games. But as far as trying to determine who's king of the hill, the Patriots are the king.
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Our goal is to keep him from making big plays, but you also have to be careful with focusing everything on him. Because the thing is, they have a team full of stars. (Running back) Rudi Johnson might get going while you're focusing on Chad, then you go after Rudi, and Chad comes back and strikes. He can cause a lot of problems for you.
game time
We had to win, so we went out and did it. But it has to be about one game at a time from here on in.
athletics people typical
Troy is different. He is not what people think of as your typical professional athlete.
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We haven't peaked yet, because we're still making mistakes. We still have things to clean up. The thing about this team is everybody wants to keep on getting better. Nobody around here thinks they're playing their best football. We don't have egos like that. We're going to get back to practicing hard and go about the business of taking this next one like we've done the whole way: One game at a time.
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We'll see some screens and throws to the running backs. I'm sure Travis Henry and Chris Brown can catch very well.
attention best challenge crowd guys love
We love the challenge of it. It's when we play our best football. Guys are more focused. We can go in there and take the crowd out of it. We like that pressure. It allows us more attention to detail.
closest ncaa played
I never played before in an NCAA Tournament, but that's the closest thing I can come to that. Crazy. Emotional.
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If you leave the games you have won or had every opportunity to win on the field, you can't get them back.
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They just take what you give them, ... If we're trying to be the No. 1 defense, we've got to stop a team like that. We had to come up with a stop late and we didn't.
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I hope there's a city there when we get back. I imagine it's under siege.
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There's no specific play that lost the game. Any time you lose and you lose in the dramatic way like we lost, and we had an opportunity to win, you're frustrated about just losing, period. It's hard enough to win a game in the NFL every Sunday, but the games you feel like you should definitely win, it just leaves a bad taste in your mouth.