James Farrior Quotations

We didn't create enough ball opportunities for our defense. We took that attitude. We knew our offense was having a hard time moving the ball. But we didn't do that.

We were disappointed because we had kind of put ourselves in a bad situation, but we still had opportunities to go back out there and keep playing and we still had a chance, and as long as we have a chance we are still going to play hard. Everybody knows what is on the line. We did not have to do a whole lot of talking about it. Everybody knows the situation and that we put ourselves in a pretty good bind and we are trying to work our way out of it.

Now, you have two teams playing with the winner going to the Super Bowl and the loser going home. We expect nothing less than an all-out war (at Denver). They are a solid team in all phases.

No, can't get him going this week. We don't need any extra stuff going on this week to give them an extra edge for this game.

If we do have an opportunity to go into the playoffs, we're going to move that way.

I don't know what it is, why we've been playing like that, but we're definitely going to have to start fast against the Colts. When you fall behind against this team, it's going to be tough to come back.

Casey is always trying to tell us what a great pass rusher he is. Maybe he'll get a chance to prove it.

If it's left up to us to stop the run, ... that's what we've got to do.

He tries to make the defense declare itself before we want to. We just have to do a good job of disguising, to try to confuse him a little bit, but it's going to be hard.

He has a lot of experience with this. Guys have been talking to him all week about this. Mr. Rooney knows all about this.

He had a lot of drops today. I don't know what it was. Maybe Joey got in his head. His game plan all week was to try to get in Stevens' head and I think he might have done that.

He never stops. He jams the other team's offensive line on every play, and he clears the way for the rest of us to make plays. Casey is a great player.

Half the time we don't even know what he's doing, so I know any other team won't know what he's doing,

Just remember the reason that we came here. It is still about the game.

It is a one game season from here on out.

Our plan doesn't change at all. They have two great running backs and a good quarterback. So the challenge is even tougher this game.

Our goal is to try and get our offense a few extra possessions ? we did that today. It's a dream come true, but it's not over yet ?we've still got one more game.

I think our scheme is very difficult. It seems like we do a lot of different things and, if you don't play us that often and you have never seen anything that we've done, it's going to be tough.

We're definitely going to see where we're at right now. They're the division leaders, so we've got to come in and be prepared to play a hard, tough game.

Troy has to be accounted for on every play. He's such a dynamic player and can do so many things that teams really have to know where he is at all times and know what he's doing.

You know he's going to throw something out there they've never seen before. You can't describe how good he is. He's seen everything and done everything.

We know them, they know us. We both know what the other one is going to do.

You'd never guess he was that guy on the field, hair flying.

We're not going to be able to get behind by so many points and then try to fight back and play well after that. We need to start off fast and keep it going. When you fall behind this team, it's going to be tough to come back.

Yeah, he's watching his weight all right. Watching it expand.

We definitely feel like as a defensive team, we need to stop the run and try to force them into things they don't want to do. We can't have them running and throwing the ball. We're going to have to take something away.

We wanted to rattle him. He's looked good, but he's a rookie. So we threw a lot of different looks at him and brought a lot of pressure.

We got a lot of people in his (Patriots QB Tom Brady's) face and tried to make him make some bad decisions, and he made a couple of bad decisions and we capitalized on them,

You have to play a full 60 minutes to beat a team like that. They're the world champions, and they didn't get that way for nothing.

When you pay attention to one player so much, a guy who's so critical to your defense, it allows you to do things with other players.

We've really come together and done some amazing things. We knew there couldn't be any more mistakes. We had to get focused and take each challenge one at a time. Each week it gets better, and this game will be even harder and we'll have to play much better. This is the big show now.

We don't want to show everything right when we get up (to the line). We want to disguise a little bit and not let Peyton have an easy read. That's going to be the key to the whole game, how well we disguise.

We didn't pay attention to the details like we should have. They got a few plays on us and got our attention. After they made a few plays, we kind of buckled down.

The spotlight is not on us like it was last year. We can go a little bit under the radar.

This is the AFC championship -- you don't need a chip on your shoulder for this game. Nobody is going to need any extra motivation or anything like that to get up for this one.

They are the playoff team. They're the team standing in the way of our ultimate goal. So we just have to go out there and play our game. It happens to be Cincinnati. We have to beat them. We know what to expect. They know what to expect.

There were plays when he'd drive the center back so far, he was almost taking the handoff, ... He was disrupting everything.

It's just the way he relates to the players. He's been on the other side, sitting where we are sitting. When he talks to us, we believe him.

It's a big difference. A lot of times teams don't know whether he's in the box or out of the box. A lot of times quarterbacks make their checks off of whether the safety's in the box or not. If you don't know where he's at, or how to count him, it's going to confuse the offense.

It was frustrating, the first couple of years. It was hard for me. It was an adjustment, coming from college, being in the big city. It took me awhile to get comfortable.

It's another road game ... but it might be a home game for Jerome.

That's something we've got to improve on. It seemed like we got them in third-and-8s all day, but they kept converting them.

That's something we've got to improve on, ... It seemed like we got them in third-and-8s all day, but they kept converting them.

Oh, we know who he is. We definitely pay attention to the highlights. We all watch it on TV.

Once that first drive was over, everybody went to the sideline and just calmed down a little bit. I was cussing at myself. But everyone got their focus back, and we just came out and executed a lot better.

It's not all real. You have to understand when he's doing dummy calls. We can tell from the film study when he's doing his fake calls. We know how to read that pretty much. But when he's on his calls, we definitely need to disguise what we're doing and show him some different looks and (make him) check to something they don't want to run.

If you got one second left on the clock, you got enough time.

I guess we had them covered in the back end, because he was running around with the ball, holding it a lot, and it allowed our guys more time to get him. We did a good job in the back end covering. ... We mixed it up a lot. We didn't want to just stay doing one thing. We wanted to try to blitz a little bit, cover a little bit and just keep them off their pace.

But I don't think anybody is scared of anybody.

I don't know if he's going to be able to tap anybody out, this is the Super Bowl. He's going to really have to play hard to tap somebody out.

If he would have stayed in the game, it might have been a long day for us. We just didn't play up to our level.

He can cause problems if we don't address the issue right away in practice this week. Those are the types of athletes that can change the game.

He always had us in the right places. If he tells us to be in a certain spot, we know it's going to work. His word is God.