Marquand Manuel
Marquand Manuel
Marquand Alexander Manuelis an American former college and professional football safety who played in the National Football Leaguefor eight seasons. Manuel played college football for the University of Florida. The Cincinnati Bengals picked him in the sixth round of the 2002 NFL Draft, and he also played for the NFL's Seattle Seahawks, Green Bay Packers, Carolina Panthers, Denver Broncos and Detroit Lions. He is currently a defensive backs coach and senior defensive consultant for the Atlanta Falcons...
kept wrong
Everything you think could go wrong went wrong. But we just kept playing.
guys lunch pack team
I know what kind of a team they are. I'm going to tell these guys, pack your lunch and be ready. Those guys are going to come to play every play of the game.
older oldest work
I just went from oldest to youngest. I didn't want to take the older ones away from work too long.
defense great hat offense radar wins
They can keep (Seattle's defense) under the radar if they want. We've got a great offense and I'll take my hat off to them, but defense wins championships.
alex players step time
We've had a lot of players go down this season. It started with Alex Bannister. And each time we've had someone else step up and take their place.
emotional everybody knows playing win
We went out there to win that game, and he was with us. It was an emotional win, and everybody knows he would have been playing the same way and doing the same thing.
caliber corner guys safety team teams
At this level, to have the guys that we have, at corner and safety and linebacker, every team doesn't have that. And then to have the caliber of guys; we've got guys that could go on other teams and start.
game missed
I've never missed that many tackles in a game. Ever.
dad mom oldest worked youngest
After Mom and Dad, I started with the oldest and worked my way down. The youngest ones, sorry, just aren't going to be able to come.
against beat good guy smith
One guy wasn't going to beat us. Smith did it against Chicago. He's a good player, but he wasn't going to do it against us.
dreams hard opportunity
Dreams do come true. You've got to keep working hard because you never know when your opportunity will come.
winning
You're one of us. We're part of winning here.
best chances games types
You don't get that many chances to play in these types of games. You've got to go out there and give it your best shot.
adversity biggest choose overcome pick taught trust
It was a lot of fun. The biggest thing is that it taught me how to overcome adversity, how to pick and choose friends and how to trust people. I think that's the biggest thing.