It’s a team, and it works hand in hand. If your DBs aren’t giving you any kind of coverage, it doesn’t matter what kind of pass rush you have,

Rome wasn’t built in a day.

Records and things like that are made to be broken. The odds can come out on a game and you might be the underdog. Is that saying that the underdog wins? No. I don’t think...

It was frustrating to keep your mouth shut all week. What we did was focus that energy inward and let it out on the field today. That’s all that matters. Anybody can talk…. We don’t...

Every team is going to have some games like this, but it’s how do you respond,

I feel like we’ve got a good mixture of guys. We don’t try to overpower each other, but have enough experience on field to let people know what’s up and help people get better.

That day was tough. Because it was like the punctuation mark to that season.

He’s going to command the double-team, … and if you single him up, he’s going to make you pay.

It’s just a little quick time, and then we go about our business. But the guys really buy into it. You know, he (Fox) talks to us all the time. The coaches talk to you...

Say we didn’t lose Jenks last year,

They started off hot. But what counts is the fourth quarter and how you finish. It’s not how you start; it’s how you finish.

This team is good. We’ll see them definitely one more time, and if anybody has anything to do with it, we’ll probably see them again. So the next time we play them, we don’t have...

We don’t talk with our mouths! We talk with our pads!

I think each guy does a great job. Each guy brings his own personality to it. We haven’t had anybody to where you’re up there thinking, ‘Wow, that was bad.’ Because it comes from the...

Last year I had to relearn that, and those new guys had to learn me. It takes time. We went through all that going 1-7 last year. But now, we throw them in, and we’re...

It’s great to get back on stride because you don’t want to limp in. You want to walk through that door with your head up, proud of what you are.

That’s what the Falcons are known for. They all do it.

Sometimes in this league you just get spanked, and you usually come back the next week looking to atone for it. Very seldom do you see a team put back-to-back weeks up like what they...

There for a while we had a problem beating them here. It’s funny how everybody has found another thing to talk about.

A lot of people put stock in the sack column, but if you hit a quarterback and it gets picked off, that’s a lot better than a sack. You can’t put all your stock in...

You can’t get caught up in how many sacks does a guy have because it doesn’t tell the whole story. Pep is off to a fine start and the sacks will come.

You can’t spot them those points at the beginning. If you don’t do that, it might be a different outcome.

It’s all about having the right mind-set when playing on the road. We’ve developed a simple philosophy: ‘See that guy lined up across from you? Try to knock the snot out of him.’ You’re not...

He’s kind of like a younger version of Brett Favre.

You can’t get stuck on one category, on just sacks,

We’re just knocking the rust off.

Since I’ve been here, I’ve never really seen him miss any time. He had that foot problem around the time of the Super Bowl (in 2003), but the guy is durable. It is kind of...

At least now, next time we play them we can talk about other things like football.

I don’t know if it’s possible to feel more comfortable on the road because we love playing before our fans. But there’s something special about going onto another guy’s turf and silencing their fans. We...

All those carries, you are going to get those yards one, two, three at a time. It’s not like it was a couple big runs. He chipped away at us by running the ball over...

Two-a-days do get you in shape in a certain way. But then there’s that cutoff point where guys are getting too nicked up or too tired to go twice a day. So it’s tough to...

That’s when I knew that Jenks was pretty close to his old self. He used a really good move to get by a really good player to get a sack. That’s when it was clear...

Everybody has their own gap. In two-gap, you have ‘A’ or ‘B’ depending on which way the ball goes and you flow that way. Here you are responsible for that one gap. If you want...

We didn’t start fast,

It was tough this week not to talk with our mouth. It’s tough to have them keep slamming you. But we kept our mouths shut. The best way to show somebody is to put the...

Anyone can be big guy. But it takes someone pretty special to be able to move as fast he does at that weight.

But at the end of the day, we’re going to carry more weight because we’re the line and we’re the foundation.

We said, ‘Hey, we’re not going to be distracted by the lack of people. We’re not going to be distracted by their record. We’re not going to be distracted by the fact that we just...

There was a point where we were losing a lot of close games. We were right there, but we were losing a lot. The turnaround was the San Francisco game. We were basically playing for...

We’ll still be messing with him in the training room. We need to keep (him) feeling connected.

As a defensive lineman you have to find yourself other ways to make plays and get yourself in the game,

I was devastated when I heard the news. I just didn’t want to believe it. We know he’s in a better place.

I think that you can see that in [the last] game, when the Eagles receivers were not catching the ball and they had alligator arms. That is a sign of being physical. One guy was...

In the framework of their schemes and the way the rules are, it’s legal. I just kind of got caught. I’ll roll with it.

The defensive backs, they will do what they have to do. But the best thing for us to do is get our hands up.

We just feel like we’ve been through a lot of different situations.

We’ll see when all of the playoffs settle down and the Super Bowl is done. You have some good sets of defensive ends out there and to get where we want to go we’ll have...

It’s so hard for Pep because once you start to do big things, the expectations keep growing and growing and growing. It gets to the point where the expectations are unreal. He had a good...