John Thornton
John Thornton
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I know the perception is that we're struggling and Pittsburgh is peaking. That's where the underdog role comes from. But I don't think this team sees itself as an underdog.
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There are going to be games when there will be adversity. You can't get down, because I don't think we're a fluke. A whole lot of people might think we're a fluke, and teams that think they're a fluke are going to get down on themselves.
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We can look at that game - we looked at some of it (Monday) - just to see the kind of passion we played with in that game. Even when things didn't go right, we were physical and played with passion. That's how you have to play in this league. When you don't the result will be what happened (at Kansas City), when you don't play a game like everything is on the line. I think this team knows the type of attitude we have to play with.
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We've gotten good pressure. That's not a question. Teams know that. Some of the pressure we've had has led to interceptions. For some reason, we haven't gotten sacks, but that's really irrelevant to me.
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You want to come in playing well, but we're in, we're at home and there's a few other teams that would love to have that. So we've got to have fun with it.
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It's very rare for someone to be so short (priced),
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It took the running game out. They still tried to run a few drives. Once we got up 14-0 and 21-0, we really didn't worry about the run game. It was just trying to keep Culpepper in the pocket and make him throw from there.
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We need to go play well and get our confidence back. It'll be good in the sense that we have another game to play (before the playoffs). We haven't played well at home in the last three games.
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When you look back on it three weeks from now, they'll add up the victories and they won't remember which ones were pretty.
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As a pro player, you want to be respected.
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Sacks are good - if you're up for your contract. You get turnovers, that's big. That's not saying we don't want sacks, but I'd rather have not lost a game than have a bunch of sacks.
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That's how this league is. Everybody rides the hot team. We were one of the glamour boys in the league, and everybody wanted to talk about us and interview us. But now they're saying we're not that good. That's fine.
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We beat those same teams, and we blew them out. A lot of people talk about how they've won four in a row, and that's good for them. But we beat those teams, too. I don't think that has anything to do with the playoffs. It's about who starts fast in this game and who makes the plays.
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