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...
family forward looking love
I love the city. All my family is up there. I've been going there for many years, so I'm looking forward to going back.
mean
We know what we mean to this team.
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.
block couple front game guy high nervous playing plays school
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.
chips defensive front hit job line starts sure touch
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.
finish guy improve reading staying technical trying
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.
wait
We can't wait to get him out there.
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.
came felt forget personal teachers
I wanted to let them know how much I appreciated them all - coaches, teachers - for everything they did for me. I felt very personal about that. You never want to forget where you came from.
doubted people
That'll be for all the people who doubted us.
drafted expected high picks team uses
This is a team that uses high picks on linemen. When they drafted us, they expected us to be successful. And right now that's apparent.
ben box eight forward looking
They're not going to be able to keep eight in the box if Ben is in there, so it's something we're looking forward to.
catch counter knew ran regular saw took willie
It was a regular counter play and Willie ran through the linebackers and took off. When I saw him running, I knew I couldn't catch that man. I'd see him in the end zone.