Max Starks
Max Starks
Maximillian Weisner Starks, IVis an American former college and professional football player who was an offensive tackle in the National Football Leaguefor ten seasons. Starks played college football for the University of Florida. He was drafted by the Pittsburgh Steelers in the third round of the 2004 NFL Draft, and also played for the NFL's St. Louis Rams...
band direct looking marked
I'm not going to say he's a marked man. But after the game, we'll be looking for him to see if he's going to direct the band again.
fire gets knows light love motivated motivates people personal
We love it. He's intense. But he is probably one of the most motivated people I've ever known. And because of his personal motivation, it motivates everyone around him to do well. He knows how to light that fire under you and gets you going, that's for sure.
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No. 1, he's that height and if he gets down lower that's less target space to hit on, ... It forces you to stay in that uncomfortable 90-degree squat stance while shuffling, while using your hands. Through the course of the game it wears on you and you start to get higher and higher by the end. At that point, he's able to run under guys or get good enough technique that he can get under their pads and push them backward.
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Naturally, there was going to be the big microscope on the right side. But we weren't about to make it so people called us the weak links. We were going to do whatever it took to be a good line. We had some rough spots in the middle of the year, but now we're all on the same page.
coming high playing together
We're playing at a high level. It's coming together for us at the right time.
compromise control coverage eventually jump passing teams tempo
That's their way to control the tempo of the game, but when you do that you compromise your coverage, You have man-to-man coverage every play, and they can't do that all day. Teams will eventually jump out of it or we are going to be a passing team, because we can do both. We're two-dimensional.
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Our job is to go out there and make sure the defensive line doesn't touch him, make sure the linebacker don't hit him and let the chips fall. It starts up front and we have to do our job.
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I thought we did a lot of things well. But there's always something you can improve on. For us, just little things. Technical things, trying to finish every play, getting on the right guy and staying on him, there's always little things, reading the coverage.
concerned interested super weeks
When he played, I was just two weeks old. I wasn't interested (in the Super Bowl). At two weeks old, I was more concerned with milk.
definitely father ferocious focus ring
He was very ferocious out there. The focus is getting the big ring. My father got an AFC championship ring and I now have an AFC championship, but I definitely want more than that.
mean
We know what we mean to this team.
wait
We can't wait to get him out there.
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I was nervous at first, but after the first couple of plays it was like playing a game in high school or college. You just go out and play and block the guy in front of you.
adversity devil front means obstacle overcame
By any means necessary. We overcame every obstacle and adversity the devil put in front of us.