Mike Rucker
Mike Rucker
Michael Dean Ruckeris a former American football defensive end who played eight seasons for the Carolina Panthers of the National Football League. He played college football for the University of Nebraska, and was drafted by the Panthers in the second round of the 1999 NFL Draft...
ProfessionFootball Player
Date of Birth28 February 1975
beating everybody found funny problem talk
There for a while we had a problem beating them here. It's funny how everybody has found another thing to talk about.
gets good growing hard people point start
It's so hard for Pep because once you start to do big things, the expectations keep growing and growing and growing. It gets to the point where the expectations are unreal. He had a good year, but people always want more.
basically close found francisco last losing playing point rode san streak took turnaround winning
There was a point where we were losing a lot of close games. We were right there, but we were losing a lot. The turnaround was the San Francisco game. We were basically playing for last place at the time, and we just found a way to win. It just kind of took off from there, and we just had a winning streak and rode the wave.
certain guys point shape tired tough twice
Two-a-days do get you in shape in a certain way. But then there's that cutoff point where guys are getting too nicked up or too tired to go twice a day. So it's tough to say.
against anybody definitely next talk team time winning worry
This team is good. We'll see them definitely one more time, and if anybody has anything to do with it, we'll probably see them again. So the next time we play them, we don't have to worry about that. We can talk about something else, we can talk about football. We don't have to worry about not ever winning against him.
best defensive hands
The defensive backs, they will do what they have to do. But the best thing for us to do is get our hands up.
We just feel like we've been through a lot of different situations.
games team
Every team is going to have some games like this, but it's how do you respond,
defensive plays ways
As a defensive lineman you have to find yourself other ways to make plays and get yourself in the game,
clear close good knew move player
That's when I knew that Jenks was pretty close to his old self. He used a really good move to get by a really good player to get a sack. That's when it was clear that he's pretty much back.
known
That's what the Falcons are known for. They all do it.
anyone fast move special takes
Anyone can be big guy. But it takes someone pretty special to be able to move as fast he does at that weight.
atone best expect last league looking next seldom team week weeks
Sometimes in this league you just get spanked, and you usually come back the next week looking to atone for it. Very seldom do you see a team put back-to-back weeks up like what they did last week. We expect their best this week.
best kept mouths pads somebody talk tough week
It was tough this week not to talk with our mouth. It's tough to have them keep slamming you. But we kept our mouths shut. The best way to show somebody is to put the big-boy pads on, and that's what we did.