Ike Taylor
Ike Taylor
Ivan "Ike" Tayloris a retired American football cornerback in the National Football league. He was drafted by the Pittsburgh Steelers in the fourth round of the 2003 NFL Draft, and spent his entire 12-year career in Pittsburgh. He played college football at Louisiana-Lafayette...
ProfessionFootball Player
Date of Birth5 May 1980
CityGretna, LA
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Our corners have to be able to come up in run support or we're not going to get on the field, ... I feel like I did all right. There's a whole lot of room for improvement. I'm just taking it game by game. But I think I did all right.
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Yeah, but that's after the game, the game's over with and we have to get on to next week. It's over, it happened, we lost and we have to get better from it.
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I heard them. I was talking to them. Man, those Steelers fans are everywhere. I don't know where they're coming from, but they're everywhere.
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I haven't heard much from him -- really, really quiet guy, ... We respect that, though. He does his thing, he takes care of business. He makes his noise on the field.
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But he can back the talk up, ... He always backs it up. You can talk all you want, but at the same time, he lives up to it. He goes and gets the ball. He's always hungry for it. He comes out and plays hard. He wants to win.
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I know all about Mr. Blount -- and what he meant to this franchise, ... He played physical football. He made them change the rules with his aggressive style.
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It was the exact same play in the first quarter. I had my hands on it, but I dropped it. I told myself at halftime that if I have another opportunity to try and come up with a play, I would, and that's what I did.
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It was a two-deep coverage. I saw the ball come out of his hand and tried to break on the ball.
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I've been lucky enough to talk to Mr. Blount from time to time, ... I just try to get his feeling on the game and what I need to work on. He always tells me to stay aggressive and be consistent, because that's what's going to keep you here.
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It's starting to click, ... I've just tried to run with it from there. As a corner, you have to play every down, every snap.
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At Christmas time, he got all the guys these therapeutic shoes to walk around the team complex in. That's what kind of special guy Troy is.
coaches confidence honor
It's an honor that the coaches have that kind of confidence in me.
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They put up a lot of points and they put up a lot of yards, ... We know they're going to be on the attack.
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They didn't explain, ... Everybody's trying to compete, everybody's trying to keep it competitive. That's all you can ask for, an opportunity. Coach is doing a great job of rotating us in and out with the first team.