Vonnie Holliday Quotes (11 Quotes)

To be honest, he's never really fully recovered. I think he's an unbelievable athlete and still has potential to be a very good player. But I think him missing out of camp and getting hurt right away hurt him. I think ever since then, he's kind of been playing catch-up. There's a very fine line. At some point, you have to decide what's more important.

I can only imagine when he touches the ball for the first time. He has a lot to prove. I think he has a lot of built-up frustration and this is going to be the way he's going to get it out. The way I see it, he has worked so hard for this moment, the opportunity. I don't think he's going to be denied.

We're building something. He said something last week that kind of got, I think, misconstrued, didn't come out right. The thing is, we understand. We bought in, we're buying in and we have to continue to do that.

I've seen other teams leaving tight ends in, leaving a back in ... and use a lot of play-action pass stuff to try and nullify our pass rush.

We can look back on these last six games and be proud of what we accomplished. Since our first team meeting, we've felt like it was something special. We have a nice mixture of veterans and young guys who really care about each other and enjoy coming together each week.

We're supposed to be the modern-day gladiators. This is a big, macho world where people think you can't talk about difficult things from your childhood. You're talking about putting yourself in a very vulnerable position and that's hard for people with this kind of mentality.

You think, 'Oh my God, here we go again.' But it's a credit to this team, to our character, to the people in this locker room who responded. We didn't let it get us down, we didn't fall into that hole -- because it was there. It was sucking us in. Guys fought their way out.

Because he's such a great pass rusher, teams are going to slide their line to try and protect the quarterback. In this defense, you can't display your protection right away because you don't know where he's coming from. It constantly makes those offensive linemen check at the line because they have no idea where he's going to line up.

We gave them a number of opportunities and that's why it was tied up at the end. It wasn't the prettiest win. We've got to play smarter. When it comes to the penalties, we committed them at the wrong time, offensively and defensively.

Every year you hear players at this time of year saying, 'This may be the last time we're together. Let's enjoy this one and have a good one. We're trying to put six wins in a row together, so we're trying to go out with a bang. It's just that time of year. Guys understand the business.

We just brushed the surface. The perception is that we ran a lot of blitzes, but we didn't. We had some success with our base stuff, so coach didn't have to call many blitzes at all.