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You have to block in this system, it's required.

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You got to perform to be a leader. You have to. You can't really say much when you're not really doing it yourself. You got to pull your own weight and show what you're willing to do to get others to follow.

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You can't really become a leader if you're still finding things out, which every rookie is. We've opened the offense up and I think that's a big part of him getting more comfortable.

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Would you want someone doing that in your life? If they don't like how the highway is repaired, are they going to harass them? You go to that bound, that's not right. You're not going to want it to happen to you, but sometimes people don't think that way. Sports brings out the fire in you.

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Willie might be a key in this game just because of his speed. They have some fast linebackers, but Willie can outrun any of them.

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When you've got 50-plus guys doing it one way, those guys will adapt. It may not be who they were, but it's who they became.

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When you get a chance to prove somebody wrong, much less the entire country, you gotta relish that.

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We've always been able to plug guys in and still be successful. There's not as much concern inside this locker room as there is on the outside.

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We're our defense's ally, ... We have to get out there and eat up the clock. We have to win the possession game, keep them off the field and keep our defense fresh.

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We worked on that all week. I'm really proud of the guys. That's one of the parts of the running game that helped us -- we didn't have to overcome a 5-yard penalty a couple times here and there. Even if there's a 2-yard gain it was positive. We were moving in the right direction.

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We go out there and do our job from the beginning, it might not be quite as loud.

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We didn't focus. I reminded everybody before we went out there that we had to focus, but we lost our concentration -- and you saw the result.

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They're trying to create seams, create that little hole, and their backs are trying to read it and hit it. That's their scheme. It goes to personnel and schemes. We counter-block a little more than some teams do. It's a personal preference.

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They were giving us a lot of different looks today. And for some reason, we just didn't get a lot of push against them. We're going to have to go back, look at film, and figure out how to get better.

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They said they [the Colts] didn't cross the line and engage somebody, and it was an inadvertent whistle. You really can't change their mind.

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They got the rings and we went home.

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They don't catch everything but it is a surprise. They reset the clock, it slipped and it happened to be for a lot of time. What are you going to do? It's like the coin toss in Detroit on Thanksgiving, what are you going to do?

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The pass he made to Hines in Miami, that was something nice. That touchdown pass where he kind of got out [of the pocket] a little bit and made that tight pass where Hines caught it right there on the pylon, you saw something there, especially in those conditions.

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The character that is brought into this locker room is tremendous. That's how you get a close-knit group of guys who are always together, never pointing fingers. It's a true credit to the organization.

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Teams are aware of his speed. They might have to hold the corner longer than if Jerome was in there.

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Right now, I eat three meals a day and take three meal-replacement shakes. But I also put a lot of time in to working out. You can't sit around on your couch and eat chips and think you're going to be 300 pounds and in shape. If you're going to be big, you better be prepared to work at it, too.

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People don't really expect that from us. They know we're trying to get the run going. Maybe they're thinking that a little too much. We're able to open up a little bit.

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My wife has some family just on their way there who lost their home in New Orleans and are going to stay in Houston for a while.

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It's not what they do, it's how much they do. They're so used to doing different things, they can change their scheme up from week to week and make it difficult on you.

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It's definitely a focus. You have to be geared in to every play, every situation and still get off on the snap count right. That takes a great focus to be keyed into all of that.

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It's a loss. We are 2-1. What happened last year doesn't matter. We beat them once and lost to them once. We lost to them when it counted and that's all that matters about last year.

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It goes to personnel and schemes. We run counter blocking a little more than some teams do. It's a personal preference.

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In our offense, the tight ends are generally one of us,.

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I'm going to miss him. The Steelers are going to miss him. To send him off like this means the world to me. He's a great person.

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I told him to give me one more chance.

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I think our staff as a whole has a better feel for what works against a 3-4 better than most teams.

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I think it's a really good assessment. They've shown all season what they can do offensively and defensively and how well they can do it on both sides of the ball, that it takes a great effort just to play on their level.

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I don't think they were in the bad part.

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I don't know if it's a big motivator, ... It's helped guide us a lot through this season, (learning to) take it game by game.

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I didn't feel that way. But I never thought they were playing soft.

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His growth from last year to this year, his comfort level with the offense, with what NFL defenses do. He's been able to react, to be in sync, and that's when you're playing your best football. I'm definitely excited to play with him now.

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He surprised me. I know veteran players can pretty much kind of get through training camp and then be ready to go the first week. I didn't know that he'd be able to do that. He's definitely showed that he can.

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He had me choked up a little bit, it means so much to him, to be in the league this long, - to give him a shot like this, it definitely means something.

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Exciting? No, it's not exciting. Do you want to go work with some little young kid who's just out of college?

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