Darryl Tapp
Darryl Tapp
Darryl Anthony Tappis an American football defensive end for the New Orleans Saints of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Seattle Seahawks in the second round of the 2006 NFL Draft. He played college football at Virginia Tech...
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Teams are remembered by their last game. Our last game, we lost to Florida State, so we have to get that bad taste out of our mouths and go out there and do our job. We can be one of the greatest teams in Virginia Tech history and go out there and win 11 games. That's a big statement, so there's a lot on the line and we all know that.
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That's common nature for guys wanting to come in and do everything they can do for the team in their senior year, their last year. There's no guarantee we'll be playing tomorrow, so every time he hits the field, he just goes all out.
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The stakes are always higher because it always decides who wins an ACC title or a Big East title or who goes to a BCS bowl. It's always going to be that way.
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We had a lot of opportunities to go to a bigger bowl game. This is what we got -- gotta work with it. We got to correct this thing.
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We've got something to prove every time we hit the field and there's going to be even more to prove now since we came down here a month ago and lost. We didn't do our job for that game, any aspect of it. Now we've got to turn it up a notch at practice and get ready.
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We were able to get them in some bad situations and we were able to capitalize on it.
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If anybody in New York wants to adopt us, we'll take it. Come on down this Saturday. Nowhere up there is a game quite like it is down here.
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I feel like I am one of the hardest-working players on the team, and this is a symbol of that. I like carrying it.
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To be in the best condition you have to do the little things. The little things are what separate a good player from a great player.
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It's unbelievably tough. We don't have any film on these guys on what they're going to run. We have to be that much more prepared.
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(The offense) slipped a little bit, so we had to buckle down a bit tighter. We had to cover their backs.
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It's everything, especially in my family. It's first and foremost. To get it done and out of the way is a great feeling.
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It wasn't too many gimmicks, just hard football. They have a massive line, but we used our speed and fundamentals to put them in some bad situations.
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It's a great honor to get a shutout. They're so hard to come by these days.