Michael Strahan
![Michael Strahan](/assets/img/authors/michael-strahan.jpg)
Michael Strahan
Michael Anthony Strahanis a retired American football defensive end who spent his entire 15-year career with the New York Giants of the National Football League. Strahan set a record for the most sacks in a season in 2001, and won a Super Bowl in his final season in 2007. After retiring from the NFL, Strahan became a media personality. He is currently a football analyst on Fox NFL Sunday, and has also served as co-host on the syndicated morning talk...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionFootball Player
Date of Birth21 November 1971
CityHouston, TX
CountryUnited States of America
I think he's definitely been under more pressure before. He's smart enough to realize in the long run it's still just a game anyway. It's a playoff game and maybe the tempo picks up a little bit more, and of course everything is at stake, but at the same time it's still football.
It depends what you do with it those six times. If you do like Moss or T.O. does, you definitely have the right to say whatever you say because there are only a few guys who can change a game in the course of a few plays.
It is something like basically getting stabbed in the heart. These are the type of games you look back on at the end of the season and just hope they don't hurt you.
This team is one of those teams that you are going to have to stay until the end of the game to see exactly what happens.
Tuck was great. Those things he did at the end were incredible for the simple fact that it took them out of field-goal range. That was huge. They had a chance to win the game if that hadn't happened. I'm very happy to see that. One thing you can't have enough of is a great pass rush and hopefully this is the start of a great career.
Compared to the other teams, it definitely seems like a younger team to me. But I think that everybody here has the same motivation, the same desire to go out there and win these games and put us in the Super Bowl. That is everybody's goal. There is no doubt in anybody's mind that we can do that as long as we play the way we are capable of playing.
When you're older, it's harder to stay in this game and play at a Pro Bowl level. I definitely feel it was one of my better years, if not the best. Experience definitely helps, realizing you don't have to rely so much on bulk, mass and strength. You can rely on what you've learned over the years and you can be just as effective.
The first two preseason games I was still like, 'OK if I stick my arm out there like I did when I messed it up, will it happen again?' ... Then against the Jets I did it to Curtis Martin. And you know what? Nothing happened. I think the more you play and the more you use it like I usually would, the less I think about it. Right now I really don't think about it at all.
You want to make something happen on defense, and for a guy who is managing a game or just kind of sits backs there and tries to pick you apart, it is a little frustrating. Defensively you want that one opportunity to make something happen. When you have a guy who plays smart like that, it makes it a little bit more difficult.
I'm sure he's not happy with the way he left the Giants. I'm sure I wouldn't be if that were the same situation in my case. But at the same time, it's not Kerry Collins against the Giants. It's Raiders against Giants. One guy can have a vengeance, but you have to go out and play the game as an entire team.
I know Eli gets a lot of flak, but for some reason when he is in the game I just feel like we've always got a shot. Eli is always going to give us a chance to win, and that's what you need.
I just enjoy this game for everyday and don't take it for granted. I just try and play my best every day. Hopefully, if I do that, it'll lead to that Super Bowl title.
As the game gets bigger, it get bigger for the players.
Memorizing a playbook is like memorizing a script. When they change the script at the last minute it's like changing a play in a game.