Zach Thomas
Zach Thomas
Zachary Michael Thomasis a former American college and professional football player who was a middle linebacker in the National Football Leaguefor thirteen seasons. He played college football for Texas Tech University, and was recognized as a unanimous All-American. He was drafted by the Miami Dolphins in the fifth round of the 1996 NFL Draft, and played for the Dolphins his first twelve seasons in the NFL. He was selected to the Pro Bowl seven times and recorded 1,100 tackles...
ProfessionFootball Player
Date of Birth1 September 1973
CityPampa, TX
He's a little different guy than what he is on camera. He's entertaining. He's a good guy.
I feel good that we are on this run. We should have got on this run earlier and that's why we are not going to the playoffs, but it is good to win.
I am sure by the time the game starts later in the week it will be a packed crowd. You have to start winning and get an identity, like Coach Saban says. Once you start doing that, you'll fill that stadium up and it won't be a problem.
He has showed he's committed to the team, and he's a good guy. He doesn't want it to be about him. He wants it to be about the team.
He might not have been welcomed back last year at a certain time. I was upset. I'm selfish - I wanted to win. I was angry. But that's last year,
Holcomb did a good job of reading, especially on that first drive. He's a smart guy. You've got to give him credit.
He's doing what we need. A big percentage of the team needs that mental toughness, and that's what we have always needed here. That will hopefully pan out and make us a tougher, nasty team. We want it where teams don't want to play us.
When he came in, I thought he was going to be a wild man. But really, he's not.
He was huge. The guy takes up a lot of gaps and does a great job of getting push. He does a great job of plugging.
That was a steal. To get a Pro Bowl-caliber quarterback, really a franchise quarterback, it can't get no better than that for a second-round pick, now. Come on. I was excited. Hopefully, his health will be fine and we've got a lot of talent around him.
We practiced horribly this week. We had it coming. We had some of our worst practices of the year this week and we got outplayed today because of it.
We're definitely going to be running our tails off because of today. We just got outplayed. They really dominated us.
We're changing so many things, it's causing confusion for other teams. In the past, it's always been so simple. Now we're making offenses think a little bit. They don't know where I'm going to be.
This was about the offense winning for us. I'm not sure, for all the time I've been here, I can say the offense had won a game when the defense didn't play well.