Michael Strahan
Michael Strahan
Michael Anthony Strahanis a retired American football defensive end who spent his entire 15-year career with the New York Giants of the National Football League. Strahan set a record for the most sacks in a season in 2001, and won a Super Bowl in his final season in 2007. After retiring from the NFL, Strahan became a media personality. He is currently a football analyst on Fox NFL Sunday, and has also served as co-host on the syndicated morning talk...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionFootball Player
Date of Birth21 November 1971
CityHouston, TX
CountryUnited States of America
I think he's definitely been under more pressure before. He's smart enough to realize in the long run it's still just a game anyway. It's a playoff game and maybe the tempo picks up a little bit more, and of course everything is at stake, but at the same time it's still football.
It depends what you do with it those six times. If you do like Moss or T.O. does, you definitely have the right to say whatever you say because there are only a few guys who can change a game in the course of a few plays.
I think I've met or exceeded most of the things on my lists, ... Sometimes you achieve them, sometimes you don't.
I think I've done just about everything I could do as a leader, ... You lead by words, by example.
We had a lot of mistakes, a lot of things that potentially could hurt us. If we can eliminate those things and continue to do everything else the way that we're doing, I think the sky is the limit.
Usually, when you have a young quarterback out there, you think, 'Just don't turn it over,' ... Let your other superstar players give us a chance to win. Well, with Eli back there, he is the superstar player. He's the guy who's going to make those plays.
Who says we are that good anyway? One week we're worse than dirt, and then the next week we are better than sugar.
You can get up here and have a good time and you don't have to worry about saying the right thing all the time.
You can be disappointed you didn't wrap it up, which I am sure we are. At the same time, it would be even more disappointing if we didn't have another chance. We have another chance. We're disappointed. We're upset. Everybody is mad. But it's not over.
Today was a morale builder for us. We've played better and we've played worse. But hopefully, this will be the start of an upswing that can take us through the postseason.
We can be sympathetic to them and what they've gone through, especially since we experienced a similar thing a few years ago. But once we step on the field, the guy across from me is not my friend and I'm not going to try to be his friend.
We have that every year so it's no big deal. Everybody's a professional, nobody's an idiot. We all know each other. We're all friends. We get on the field and it's competitive and it's the same way in practice. It's part of football. I don't think it carries over into the game, and I don't think anybody's trying to hurt anybody.
I think everyone's been disciplined. Everyone's been in the gaps they're supposed to get in and guys are making gang tackles, not waiting for guys to make the play, and everybody's running to the ball.
To get a Super Bowl ring and L.T.'s sack record. That's what I want,