Adam Archuleta
Adam Archuleta
Adam Jason Archuletais a former professional American football safety who played in the National Football Leaguefor seven seasons. He played college football at Arizona State, and was selected in the first round of the 2001 NFL Draft by the St. Louis Rams with the 20th overall pick...
ProfessionFootball Player
Date of Birth27 November 1977
CityRock Springs, WY
guys hear knew last middle nobody played season week
Last week was different than I was used to, it was serious. Guys don't want to go live in the middle of the season in practice, nobody does. But I think guys pretty much knew we had to get in gear. You don't like it. You don't like to have to hear those things, but evidently it works. We played a lot better, we were more physical, and we won.
fun run
I'm going to get in there. Get in the mix. Have fun, run around a little bit.
It was a gutsy call. Somebody's got to get through.
came
They came out and pretty much had their way with us offensively.
character defense establish great hang hat trying
That's something the defense can hang their hat on. We're trying to establish our character and our identity. This was a great game, especially for our defense.
coaches defensive good league respected
And those were just the front-runners. It makes me feel good at the end of the day, that two of the most respected defensive coaches in the league wanted me.
fans great miss piece
There's a piece of me that's going to miss being in St. Louis. The fans there were great to me.
bringing
It's just an all-out blitz. We're bringing everybody.
dominate erase
It's embarrassing. We have to go out there and erase that from our memories. The only way to do that is to go out there and dominate this game.
excuse maybe shut sorry testament ways
There's a lot of reasons, or a lot of ways you could come up with an excuse to shut it down. Or maybe feel sorry for yourself. I think this is a testament to our character.
best fans feelings great hear
It?s one of the best feelings in football, ... It?s great when you hear the fans and you know you just made a big play. It?s an unbelievable feeling.
breaks cover deepest hung island left
It's one of those things where when the quarterback breaks the pocket, we've got to cover the deepest receivers. We kind of left 'Fish' out on an island back there. We kind of hung him out to dry. ... We've just got to be disciplined.
defense guy places sign someplace team
It was going to take a lot for me not to sign with Chicago. It was important for me to go someplace where defense was important and they did things the right way. (Williams) was a guy I could play for who could make me better as a player, and this team is going places in this league.
ended four glad good hold needed nice offense territory test three
It would have been nice to hold them to three or four and out in their territory and let our offense take a knee. But this was a good test for our defense. I think we kind of needed that to get some confidence. I'm glad it ended up this way.