When you go through a tournament of seven games, there are peaks and valleys. You kind of ride the players that are hot.
I think playoff experience matters for sure.
I've got to get my cardio up. I'm usually known as the fitness guy on the Stanford team, but not 70 to 80 plays a game, so I've definitely got to step that up. But I'm all about it.
Good instincts are vital to longevity in the NFL.
I'm not the strongest, I'm not the fastest, I can't jump the highest, so for me, it's doing it in other ways: changing paces, using your body to get open, knowing your defender. A lot goes into it. You have to study the game.
I just coach and get my guys ready.
I think, generally speaking as a player, when I hear the word 'scout,' it's usually, 'The Seattle Storm are playing the L.A. Sparks tomorrow; the assistant coaches are scouting the L.A. Sparks.' And then they come to us and give a scouting report on the players and the team.
I think when you're a very good defensive team you give yourself a chance every night, on the road, at home, it's a big factor and something to build on.
You just constantly are evaluating and learning and drawing players and coverages and talking through it. It's part of making you the player, how you want to approach the game.
I don't think I was a fine game coach. I'm trying to be honest. I think I was a good practice coach.
I'm an NBA basketball coach. I'm not an official, and I'm not trying to be an official.
I enjoyed being a teammate of Deion Sanders. He brings different elements to the game that many people would not even realize, and to watch and witness a superior talent like him and watch him prepare and train, and study the game is truly amazing.
I break down the tape like I'm a quality-control coach, just like I was with the Packers in 1992. I break it down by hand, every play.
Anything you train can be improved upon. If you do it over and over again, your body is going to remember these moves and not be surprised in the game.
Teaching players during practices was what coaching was all about to me.
My preparation doesn't change from being a backup to a starter.
My reads, operation with the offense, timing with the receivers, routes, sitting in the pocket, trusting my line - everything is always a work in progress.
I think the most important thing I work on is just my mental approach to every day, my mental approach to the game. How to come in each and every day focused, doing what I want to do, I think that's just the biggest issue.
I learned from Chuck Noll in Pittsburgh that speed and explosiveness on defense is the way to build a team. Both are difficult for your opponent to assimilate in practice and then in games it is even harder to match.
It's hard to win in the NFL. You have to maintain a very delicate balance putting together the right team to be able to win and have any amount of success.
I picked ducks in a tub in my dorm room. I'd hang deer in the doorway between the bedroom and the little living room in our little apartment there, and I'd skin my deer, and all the guts would go in the tub, and I'd sneak them out so my fellow students on both sides wouldn't see all that, you know. I'd clean fish up there and all.
I just love how fluid football has to be, how much time and energy it takes to practice and then taking it to the field and executing in a game situation.
You know you're going to have 162 games. You're going to have six months to play this game and playing every day is going to be a grind.
Something we do every tour is to choose a song for the team CD that gets played in the dressing room prior to games.
You can't just sit back and think you're gonna pack the paint in and win games. You've gotta guard that three-point line.
