If you're a great defensive player, you're a great defensive player 100% of the time. You can't be a great defensive player half of the time because you didn't get the ball once or twice. That can't sidetrack you. It's got to be 'I live for my defense, and my offense I'll get. But I can't let it affect my defense. Nothing affects my defense.'
I always try to go in there and stick to my base, which is the defensive end, and then just let the offense come to me.
Strengths, I believe deep down that I am a football player, just have to do whatever it takes to win games, whatever it takes to fulfill my role on the offense and help my team win games.
Obviously, teams are passing a lot more, and there are rules that... allow the offense to be more explosive, so you want to have as many defensive players and defensive playmakers and defensive backs that you can.
Defensive guys don't really understand. It's totally different for offense. Defensive guys are convinced they know us but they just don't understand. Quarterbacks have so much that they have to read and adjust to. They have to look at everybody on the defense. It's totally different for the offense.
I want people to see me as a two-way player. A defensive player and an offensive player.
In the defensive midfield position, the player needs to give balance to the team and try to control the game. That's exactly what I try to do.
Whatever the offense dictates to allow me doing what I or this offense needs to do to win games, I'm going to do it.
Many players don't need trust to be a good defensive player, but for me it's huge that the coaching staff believes in me and are putting me on the best player.
I've always thought of myself as the best defensive player in the league, and I want to play like the best defensive player in the league.
I want to become the player that the offense gameplans around, that the offense fears coming into the game.
I was always being creative. I could never have played a defensive role because I would have been forced to destroy the other player's creativity.
I have three Defensive Players of the Year. Only one other player has done that. But being a defensive lineman, it's hard to control the game.
You're put into a box where you're either an offensive, defensive coach or a player development guy. Fair or unfair. You have to be whatever your team needs you to be.
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You have to use your mind n the NFL. Every player is smarter. Defensive backs bluff and disguise coverages to try to fool you.