Jordan Gross
Jordan Gross
Jordan Alan Grossis a former American football offensive tackle and current sideline reporter for the Carolina Panthers of the National Football League. He played college football at Utah, where he was recognized as a consensus All-American. He spent his entire career with the Carolina Panthers, who drafted him eighth overall in the 2003 NFL Draft...
expected good happens hear knew left obviously played sad senior tackle year
I played with him a year at Utah; he was a right tackle and I was a left tackle my senior year. I knew him real well; he's a real good guy. It was sad to hear about it. Obviously no one expected it. When it happens to a real good person, it makes you pretty upset.
beat four memorial seven time
I think this was the first time we beat Memorial in like four or seven years.
information sat watched
I sat there and kind of watched it over and over to see if they had any information,
ate ball behind clock game kept last lead picks ran threw throwing tough
Last game, we got behind and started throwing the ball and threw two picks early, and it was just a tough game from there. This game was more our style. We got out and scored and kept the lead and ate up clock and ran the ball. That's what our team's about, not throwing the ball all the time.
good interested needed run
He was in good shape. He was always able to run and do what he needed to do. I don't think that was as much of an issue. I'm interested to see what happened. I think it must have been genetic.
ability against good happens hard natural peppers player
He just has the natural ability to get to the ball. Luckily, I get to go against Peppers all the time, and I think he's a good player too. It's going to be a hard day, but that's what happens in the playoffs.
fired gets guy passionate
He gets so fired up it makes you laugh. He can be such a passionate guy when it comes to football.
change count emphasis false helps snap
We don't change our snap count very often. That helps a lot. And, we put a lot of emphasis on not getting false starts. It's important to us, and when it happens, you're really disappointed in yourself. It's not something that just slides by on our team.
ball defense playing running similar
We are playing similar to how we did then. We're running the ball well and our defense is playing great.
exploded game running
We haven't really had any game where we've just exploded in the running attack,
lose lost next season survived takes team teams weight
You know, I think when you play a team during the season and they really get after you the way those teams did, it kind of makes you think, 'Well, hey, we survived the worst.' When you've lost like that one time, there's really nothing more to lose the next time. So I think that kind of takes the weight off you a little bit.
passes protect
We need to be able to protect and get the passes off to make them back off.
joke prepare pressure reason
We prepare the same, we joke around the same. You really don't try to put too much pressure on the game. I think that's the reason he's able to do that.
game remember
Hopefully, everyone will remember this game and not the first one.