Mack Strong
Mack Strong
Mack Carlington Strongis a former American football player who was a fullback for the Seattle Seahawks of the National Football Leaguefor fourteen seasons. After playing college football for the University of Georgia, he was signed by the Seahawks as an undrafted free agent in 1993. Strong was selected the Pro Bowl twice in his career, in 2005 and 2006. He currently is a football sportscaster for Root Sports Northwest...
ProfessionFootball Player
Date of Birth11 September 1971
CityFort Benning, GA
best trying week
It's a play we were working on all week long. I was just trying my best not to fumble the football.
fun lean winning
The winning makes it a lot more fun. I've been through some lean seasons. Winning makes it a lot easier. You can see it in practice.
detroit feeling learned lessons ready seen turning worth
I've seen a lot of years that were very challenging. A lot of turning points, a lot of lessons learned over those years. But I can tell you with all honesty, with all my heart, it's been worth every second. The feeling I have right now, getting ready to go to Detroit to play for a world championship ... it's just tremendous.
balanced defend football gets great guys hard news nine offense passing stop tries washington win
They're going to try to stop Shaun? Wow, news flash. I feel like we have a balanced enough offense that if Shaun gets 50 yards, if that's all he's got, we can still win the football game. If Washington comes out and tries to put eight, nine guys in the box, then we're going to have a great day passing the football. It's going to be incredible. I think it's going to be hard for them to defend us.
answered biggest came flying game questions
That's the biggest game that this organization has ever been in and he came through with flying colors. If there were any questions about his toughness, they should have been answered then.
chips fallen
That's OK. I've been blessed. The chips have fallen my way.
guys matter needed plays time understanding
It's just a matter of guys just understanding it's time to make plays. Those opportunities in the past, when we had them, we didn't make the plays when we needed to, and this time we did. That's the difference.
opportunity seems special
It seems to be our year. We have an opportunity to do something very special in this city.
anxious guys movies nicely point sleeping sort taking travel watching
It's the way it's always been when we travel. It's sort of light. Guys are watching movies. We travel nicely on Mr. Allen's plane. Guys are sleeping and guys are taking it easy. Nobody's really anxious at this point about what we're about to be a part of. It's sort of the same old, same old.
almost bringing corner great job ready safety
They do a great job of bringing them. They corner blitz, they bring the safety, they bring linebackers. So you have to be ready on almost every play that they're going to bring somebody.
bowl super
You don't get to the Super Bowl by accident. It's not just by chance, and we didn't just get lucky.
goals higher playoff since throwing win won
There's no question, we've got to win the game. We'll be throwing everything we have, all of our weapons, all of our energy, all of our focus, all of our concentration. It's not just because it's been so long since we've won a playoff game. But it's more that if we lose, we're done, and we have higher goals than that.
ahead engaged everybody focused grounded hard locker playing room special task
The thing that's really special about it is that everybody in this locker room is really grounded about the task that we have ahead of us in playing the Steelers. It's not hard to be engaged and be focused on what we've got to get done.
begin definitely expecting great
I definitely wasn't expecting that. But it was a great way to begin the week.