Steve Hutchinson
Steve Hutchinson
defense hearing people proved team teams worst wrong
We'd been hearing that our team had the worst defense of the 12 teams that made the playoffs. They proved people wrong today. Can you play any better than that?
accept against anywhere best covered defense difference entire gave good near night nobody played struggled team teams
Nobody gave up. That's the difference between this team and teams from the past. We are not going to accept 'no.' We did not play anywhere near our best game. The defense played their butts off for the entire night against a very good offense, and we struggled a little bit. We covered for each other, and that's what a team does.
cutting defense force honestly overload pay run secret teams
It's not a big secret that we like to run left. Because of that, other teams are going to overload to that side. But Shaun can see that and make the defense pay by cutting it back. Shaun single-handedly a lot of times will force the defense to play it honestly because of the cutback.
against beat defense game great guys hump last played playoff rated redskins streak team teams winning won worst
A lot of the guys on this team got over the hump after winning against the Redskins last week. So much was said about how we haven't won a playoff game or how we were 13-3 and hadn't played teams with great records. Our defense is probably the worst rated of the 12 teams in the playoffs. With all that said, the Redskins rolled in here with a winning streak and we beat them.
proud
We're just as proud of it as Shaun is.
coming plays team
This team is really coming together, making plays for each other.
bit good knocked light normal rust start tried
We kind of knocked the rust off a little bit. We had a light practice, meetings, got back into it a little bit and tried to get back in a normal schedule. (Monday) was a good start for us.
ask helped talk team though tried veterans
Even though we really don't see each other as much as we'd like, we talk a lot, probably once a week. We helped each other out as a rookie: 'What are you seeing? What's going on here?' You're a little intimidated and you don't want to ask the veterans on your own team questions. We kind of tried to help each other out that way.
behind contract football helmet league poison putting rule until wants
Up until (Friday), everything was about me being new, the poison pill, the contract and what the league wants to do to amend the rule or whatever. Now it is back to football and putting on a helmet and being able to play. You can kind of put that behind you, so it's nice.
game sure utilize worked
What we did do in that game was to find out what worked and what didn't. I'm sure we will try to utilize some of that stuff.
bowl excited gets pro
I think I'm more excited about it than he is because he's now a rookie. When he gets to Hawaii, he's a Pro Bowl rookie.
appreciate bad cloud coming dust flying league people pittsburgh ten three tradition yards
Pittsburgh has the tradition of being a blue-collar, three yards and a cloud of dust team. I can appreciate that, coming from a Big Ten school. But I don't think many people know much about us. And that's not a bad thing, flying under the radar. But you can't play in this league without being physical.
head hoping
I think we're all kind of hoping for it. But we all kind of had it in our head this is going to be a long week.
funny guess guys hear
That would be kind of funny. I guess it would be kind of an honor, too. But at the same time, you hear guys saying, 'I want that long-term deal,' because of the security.