He had a couple (of) injuries early in his career that kept him from growing at a normal pace. But soon as he stayed healthy, which he has, he just really became a fine defensive...

I try to stay out of Troy’s way. We establish parameters for him, and he has to be at a certain place at a certain time.

We told our guys all week these are two good teams and it’s going to come down to one or two plays. I knew Indy would come back. I’ve seen (Peyton) Manning do it too...

He’s very quick, and he can make plays with his feet and his arm. He is also very accurate, and his ability to escape adds to his overall package.

We looked at it, sure. We thought they (the Chargers) did a good job. What they did, we did. We benefited from looking at their game.

He looked like he was 100 percent to me. They said he’s 90 percent. If he’s got more than that, he’s pretty good.

They’re all very anxious to get out there. They’ve earned their spot in the sun, and they want to go get it.

He’s similar to those guys in that he has good size and speed and can really run, yet he can blitz, too. I think he enjoys playing in our system, just like they did.

He’s very motivated, very studious and he has tremendous instincts, so that’s a pretty good combination. His talent lets us do a lot of things that you could not do with not many people. He...

Our guys did a great job with their disguising and their timing.

There’s an element of disguise. You don’t know which one, two or three linebackers is going to rush the quarterback.

It’s a nice even number, isn’t it? When I reached 30 years, I didn’t think about 50. But we’re a little closer to 50 now. So we’ll see. I’ll take it one snap at a...

He’s not like any other safety I have ever seen.

He makes me look really good.

Troy improvises a lot of that stuff. We give him parameters, and sometimes Troy may stretch those a bit.

Make no mistake, they’ve got a great quarterback. It’s not easy to hold him under 20. Our guys did that and it gives you a great chance to win. It was the execution of our...

We always know where he’s going. But I’m not always sure how he’s going to get there.

As a defense, we didn’t play very well in (the AFC Championship game) and that’s going to be in the front of our minds, for sure.

I think that’s a compliment to Larry.

Our guys just made the plays. They didn’t block our guys the way they’ve been blocking people. They had a harder time. They had a good game plan to use their speed and get out...

In his unique way, I think he creates not any better than those guys but in a different manner.

You do a good job where you are and opportunities either open or they don?t. Those people who spend a lot of time worrying about that are being counterproductive, because all that matters is where...

Nobody ever gets the guy down.

He’s a rare athlete. A lot of what we do is because of what he can do.

I haven’t changed a bit over the years. I have tried to learn from all these people and have tried to dissect what makes them so successful. What is it that made them better teachers,...

The statistics will tell you that: They scored more points. That’s usually a pretty good barometer for the effect that the rule changes had on the game for that year. The numbers, in this case,...

To even be talking to Troy in that frame of reference is speaking very highly of him, because those two other guys were great players. I began to see a lot of the things that...

The secret, if there was one, was the execution of our players.

I’m not sure how much that hair weighs. As long as it doesn’t slow him down, I don’t care. He can grow it another foot if he can get another interception.

He’s a very rare athlete. A lot of what we do is because of what he lets us do. He’s a special player. He makes me look really good.

All quarterbacks have to have time and space to operate. We’ll do the same thing we always do: play zone pressure. And our guys play it very well.

He’s very motivated, he’s very studious and he has tremendous instincts. That’s a pretty good combination.

Our coaches were good to us. They treated it more as a bonus for us. We didn’t work too hard and we got some time off.

We played in the first three because we were always second to Green Bay.

He runs real, real fast. And he’s very instinctive. He just can diagnose and get to the right spot.

We were able to take away the big play. They’ve got a great running back and an tremendous quarterback, and they were able to move the ball on us. But we were able to get...

They don?t hold the ball very long. It?s out of there quickly.

It was pretty neat, really. I think it was Benjamin Franklin who said ‘Small things seem great to people of small circumstances.’ That seemed like a pretty great thing to me. It was a tremendous...

I never got my uniform dirty. I had the best seat in the house. Our front seven just swallowed everything up.

He’s a rare threat. We’ve had Carnell Lake and Rod Woodson do similar things, but players like that don’t come down the road too often. Troy is special.

They do a good job of protecting the quarterback. So I thought instead of beating our head against the wall, we’d let our guys drop back and play some max-coverage. I thought they did a...

I think there was more an advantage then than now because no one did it. They’re keeping you from substituting. Manning’s probably the best that, if you try to substitute, he’s going to catch you...

He can do so many things.

He gives you unlimited flexibility. He can play the deep perimeter. He can play as a linebacker support player. He can blitz. For a defensive coordinator, he’s ideal. You can put him anyplace.

You can just do more with the 3-4 (than the 4-3). If there’s any advantage, there’s not as many 3-4 teams in the league right now and that gives us maybe a slight advantage. They...

Nobody remembers who loses the Super Bowl. Maybe a few people in the league tell you ‘good job’ because you made it so far. But I think, in general, when you lose the game like...

It’s not just the scheme we use. It’s the players.

He’s a lot faster runner than you would think for a man of his dimensions. But his real strength of course is anchoring and inverting the line of scrimmage and letting us play around him.

Troy’s got that rare ability to play at all levels of the defense — deep, intermediate, at the line and blitz. Those people just don’t come along every day.