Chris Hope
Chris Hope
Christopher Pierre Hopeis a former American football safety in the National Football League. He played college football for Florida State University. He was drafted by the Pittsburgh Steelers in the third round of the 2002 NFL Draft, and has also played for the Tennessee Titans and Atlanta Falcons. He helped the Steelers win Super Bowl XL against the Seattle Seahawks...
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Once you get to the college and professional levels and meet guys from all over the world, it's hard to think you'll find a true friend, a true teammate. That's what I compare it to. It's almost like we have an unbelievable trust in each other. I never thought I'd have that opportunity to experience that again. You never think you'll see that bond you had in high school. Here, it's something we have.
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It's a hard situation to talk about. And at the same time, it's a tough situation to be in because you're working with a guy who makes you better. You're working on a great defense. But you might not get all the credit or the respect that you deserve.
attention best challenge crowd guys love
We love the challenge of it. It's when we play our best football. Guys are more focused. We can go in there and take the crowd out of it. We like that pressure. It allows us more attention to detail.
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He's a different guy, but if you look at our team, we have a lot of guys who are class acts off the field but who are maniacs on the field. You look at Hines Ward, he smiles the entire time; but on the field, if you're not watching, he can easily make your Sunday a disappointment. Jerome Bettis is a yes-sir, no-sir guy, but on the field he can hammer you, too. That's just the makeup of our team.
late stop team trying
They just take what you give them, ... If we're trying to be the No. 1 defense, we've got to stop a team like that. We had to come up with a stop late and we didn't.
city hope imagine
I hope there's a city there when we get back. I imagine it's under siege.
closest ncaa played
I never played before in an NCAA Tournament, but that's the closest thing I can come to that. Crazy. Emotional.
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Any time you lose when you have the opportunity to win, it's frustrating. Any time you lose, period, it's frustrating. But it's still early in the season. The biggest thing that stands out in my mind is that I think we could easily be undefeated right now.
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To win after nobody thought we could - sixth seed, three playoff games on the road - was more special than if we had won last year when we were the cream of the crop.
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There's no specific play that lost the game. Any time you lose and you lose in the dramatic way like we lost, and we had an opportunity to win, you're frustrated about just losing, period. It's hard enough to win a game in the NFL every Sunday, but the games you feel like you should definitely win, it just leaves a bad taste in your mouth.
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They ain't nothing but another game on our schedule, ... If I had an opportunity to see the future, looking back at how we played last year and how it turned out last year, I'd let them win the first one this time.
five meeting sleep three wake
There will be times we have to go to a meeting in five minutes, and he'll say, I'm going to sleep for three minutes. Wake me up.
improvement
It would be big, being that we're real young and we still have lot of improvement to do.
couple deep drawing gave higher last mistakes
As a whole, we had too many little mistakes -- our expectations are much higher than that. In the secondary, we gave up a couple of deep ones and you didn't see too much of that last year, so we have to get back to the drawing board.