Torry Holt
Torry Holt
Torry Jabar Holtis a former professional American football player who was a wide receiver in the National Football Leaguefor eleven seasons. He was named to the Pro Bowl seven times and retired with the 10th most receiving yards, including a record six consecutive seasons with 1,300 yards. He played college football at North Carolina State University, and earned consensus All-American honors. He was drafted by the St. Louis Rams in the first round of the 1999 NFL Draft, and spent...
ProfessionFootball Player
Date of Birth5 June 1976
CityGreensboro, NC
He said he was feeling better. He has a pretty good spirit about things, and that's the most important thing. That helps us. If he's high-spirited, then we can go out and be high-spirited.
When they signed him back, I called him and congratulated him. I told him that there was going to be riots over there if they hadn't gotten him back and we both laughed.
He was telling Marc, 'C'mon, throw it my way,' ... and I told him, 'We're going to throw the football -- you just have to make a play on it.'
I wouldn't panic too much, I would say to the people out there, ... We as players aren't panicking, the coaches aren't panicking, and that's the most important thing.
We're already down one in our division. And now we have another division opponent. We have to go in there and fight. To go down two in the division is tough.
We need to knock them in the mouth and get some three-and-outs,
We had a lot of great memories with Kurt, those types of things will flash back leading up to the game,
Most important, it allows me upstairs, mentally, to be at ease a little bit.
We didn't execute as well as we should have in the red zone. It goes to show that the best team doesn't always win. I think that we were the better team and the stats showed we were the better team. But (the 49ers) made more plays to win the ballgame.
Coach (Mike Martz) kind of challenged us this week to come out against Detroit and play well and we did that on both sides of the ball,
I'm going to need some heart pills soon. At some point in time we have to say enough is enough and let's finish a ballclub out early, and let's get out of here with a clean victory.
I'm glad that I went to North Carolina State because we didn't win a lot of ballgames, we didn't win any national championships. We lost three or four straight, but you still had to come out and work and play and believe in your teammates. The same approach I took in college is the same approach that I have taken now.
But I think this is a football team that's together, we understand what we didn't do to win that ballgame, and we have another opportunity against another divisional opponent on the road to redeem ourselves, ... It'll be up to us as players to go out there and do that.
It's been different. I have a tremendous amount of respect for Mike and what he can do. His creativity is something we'll miss. But I think coach Fairchild has a good handle on things.