Zach Thomas Quotations

I am sure by the time the game starts later in the week it will be a packed crowd. You have to start winning and get an identity, like Coach Saban says. Once you start doing that, you'll fill that stadium up and it won't be a problem.

I feel good that we are on this run. We should have got on this run earlier and that's why we are not going to the playoffs, but it is good to win.

He has showed he's committed to the team, and he's a good guy. He doesn't want it to be about him. He wants it to be about the team.

He might not have been welcomed back last year at a certain time. I was upset. I'm selfish - I wanted to win. I was angry. But that's last year,

He's a little different guy than what he is on camera. He's entertaining. He's a good guy.

Holcomb did a good job of reading, especially on that first drive. He's a smart guy. You've got to give him credit.

He's doing what we need. A big percentage of the team needs that mental toughness, and that's what we have always needed here. That will hopefully pan out and make us a tougher, nasty team. We want it where teams don't want to play us.

When he came in, I thought he was going to be a wild man. But really, he's not.

He was huge. The guy takes up a lot of gaps and does a great job of getting push. He does a great job of plugging.

That was a steal. To get a Pro Bowl-caliber quarterback, really a franchise quarterback, it can't get no better than that for a second-round pick, now. Come on. I was excited. Hopefully, his health will be fine and we've got a lot of talent around him.

We're definitely going to be running our tails off because of today. We just got outplayed. They really dominated us.

We're changing so many things, it's causing confusion for other teams. In the past, it's always been so simple. Now we're making offenses think a little bit. They don't know where I'm going to be.

We practiced horribly this week. We had it coming. We had some of our worst practices of the year this week and we got outplayed today because of it.

We're trying to do what the Patriots have done. We've got a long way to go, but those guys know how to win. They've been there. They've done that. That's what we're striving to do.

We killed ourselves on defense, man. Let them beat you; don't let yourselves beat you.

This was about the offense winning for us. I'm not sure, for all the time I've been here, I can say the offense had won a game when the defense didn't play well.

We should have gotten on this run earlier. That's why we're not going to the playoffs. There are plenty of games we're looking back on now and saying, 'Man, we'd be in the playoff hunt if we just pulled one or two of those games out.' We shot ourselves in the foot early.

We had some big plays on third down that we missed. We've gotta get better and we will, I promise you that. This ain't the same old Dolphins. We're going to get better -- we had a rough day and we wish we had some of those plays back, but we're going to improve. I promise you that.

Don't even try to type him. It's a waste of time. He'll never repeat tendencies.

Seems like every year at this time I give you an excuse. Then I say what has to be done, and we do it, and the next year there's a different excuse. But what they've done this year is pack the team with so much talent that we won't be able to blow it. We're so loaded that there just won't be any excuses.

On defense, we can be really good this year. Hopefully, we can just keep it together. We throw in new stuff every week. But we've got to be on the same page every week. If we get that down, we can be very dominant.

You're not going to stay because he likes you. That's why I feel like I have to stay healthy and be here as long as I can. They're going to bring a championship here.

They put us in a hole and it changed the whole game.

They got it done right from the opening drive. We didn't have any momentum because we didn't get off the field and when we finally scored and got back into the game, two plays and we let them score.

They did wear us out. You have to give credit to the Chiefs. They have a good offense and we gave them some things, including myself. ... You could tell the energy wasn't there for us, and you can't play football without a spark. There was nothing there.

It might have been 70 percent. Probably not that much, but it was a lot.

For a guy who's 21 years old, that's impressive to come in here and pick up a scheme like this. That just shows that he is only going to get better.

That just shows how much depth they've got. They don't miss a beat when the starters are out of the game.

No back in the league gives me as much trouble, ... I'm short, and I can get leverage on the backs, but not Henry. I can't get under him. And he runs so hard. I hate trying to tackle him.

I've got two days of film work to do in one,

They did a little fast-tempo offense and were moving guys in and out. You have to be able to get the calls right even when they do that. A couple times we missed communication and that starts with me. We all have to be on the same page.

I'm going to be a jerk, but I don't care. I didn't say anything all week. We let guys slide and got too comfortable. We've got to work harder and answer on game days.

I know that we are going to be a lot better when the Jets come down and play us and they will be too, but hopefully we get even better than them.

I'm just proud of the guys, because when we were 3-7, we could have shut it down. And guys kept fighting.

I promise that once we get clicking on defense we are going to be real good. We were off today and we weren't very good.

I guess you could say things have gone our way.

He bounced back today. You've got to give him credit. He hit the plays when they needed it and we were just inconsistent.

The man has a plan. He knows exactly what he's doing. He has total confidence in his ability to make the right moves.