Jordan Gross Quotations

He gets so fired up it makes you laugh. He can be such a passionate guy when it comes to football.

He was in good shape. He was always able to run and do what he needed to do. I don't think that was as much of an issue. I'm interested to see what happened. I think it must have been genetic.

He just has the natural ability to get to the ball. Luckily, I get to go against Peppers all the time, and I think he's a good player too. It's going to be a hard day, but that's what happens in the playoffs.

Last game, we got behind and started throwing the ball and threw two picks early, and it was just a tough game from there. This game was more our style. We got out and scored and kept the lead and ate up clock and ran the ball. That's what our team's about, not throwing the ball all the time.

I sat there and kind of watched it over and over to see if they had any information,

I think this was the first time we beat Memorial in like four or seven years.

We haven't really had any game where we've just exploded in the running attack,

We don't change our snap count very often. That helps a lot. And, we put a lot of emphasis on not getting false starts. It's important to us, and when it happens, you're really disappointed in yourself. It's not something that just slides by on our team.

You know, I think when you play a team during the season and they really get after you the way those teams did, it kind of makes you think, 'Well, hey, we survived the worst.' When you've lost like that one time, there's really nothing more to lose the next time. So I think that kind of takes the weight off you a little bit.

We need to be able to protect and get the passes off to make them back off.

We are playing similar to how we did then. We're running the ball well and our defense is playing great.

We prepare the same, we joke around the same. You really don't try to put too much pressure on the game. I think that's the reason he's able to do that.

I've been watching Steve since I was a freshman in college. He's been making great plays as long as I've known him. He seems to get better every game. You know he's drawing more and more attention, but he still finds a way to do what he does.

The thing about Jake is he doesn't get stressed out or too caught up in stressful situations. The playoffs are a time where if you do feel that, it could definitely affect your play. I think Jake just knows when the big games are and when you need to make the big plays and he's just really good at doing that.

They only had two sacks. But I think Jake got hit a lot more than that.

It's just great to get a chance against these guys. It's great to redeem yourself and let everybody know what we're all about.

It was a shock to me, just like everybody else.

Dan was hitting his spots today. He was able to throw on the inside corner on a consistent basis.

It seemed like every time we got a penalty, it was on a big gain. That makes it more frustrating. We get down to first-and-10 at the 11, and end up first-and-20. There are just things like that that will kill you. ... Those penalties are hard to overcome.

It seemed like every time we got a penalty, it was on a big gain,

They were clogging everything up in the middle and whenever we went outside they were letting their linebackers run and make plays. They did a great job of game-planning against our running game. And when we don't get that push, our running game's not going to work.

I just bring leadership and try to control the game. I want to get the best out of everybody.

I remember my first year and in some of the loud games, I was really late off the ball. It's just something you've got to work on. You can't really simulate except being in the games. They try to do crowd noise at practice, but it's just not the same.

I played with him a year at Utah; he was a right tackle and I was a left tackle my senior year. I knew him real well; he's a real good guy. It was sad to hear about it. Obviously no one expected it. When it happens to a real good person, it makes you pretty upset.

Hopefully, everyone will remember this game and not the first one.

You definitely get some funny look at times. But all that matters is getting on base. I feel like your on-base percentage is much more important than the batting average.

The crowd is always a problem early in the game. But the key is to stay in the game and never let it get out of hand and maybe get ahead like we did in the Giants game. That way you don't have to worry about the crowd being as involved as they could be.