Alan Faneca
Alan Faneca
Alan Joseph Fanecais a former professional American football player who was a guard in the National Football Leaguefor thirteen seasons. He played college football for Louisiana State University, and earned consensus All-America honors. He was drafted by the Pittsburgh Steelers in first round of the 1998 NFL Draft, and played professionally for the Steelers, New York Jets and Arizona Cardinals of the NFL. An eight-time All-Pro and nine-time Pro Bowl selection, Faneca won a Super Bowl ring with the Steelers...
ProfessionFootball Player
Date of Birth7 December 1976
I told him to give me one more chance.
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They have so many of them coming at you, it can get confusing.
change difficult scheme week
It's not what they do, it's how much they do. They're so used to doing different things, they can change their scheme up from week to week and make it difficult on you.
clock couple decided fire last lead passed people pound run sat stop trying
It's always run-first. The last couple of games, people decided to stop the run so we passed the ball, got the lead and sat on the lead. You're not going to set the world on fire when you're up 17 points. Look at the situations: We were trying to kill the clock and trying to pound it out.
finding leader offense opened rookie
You can't really become a leader if you're still finding things out, which every rookie is. We've opened the offense up and I think that's a big part of him getting more comfortable.
football job left minutes
The job isn't done. It's 60 minutes of football left to play.
behind everybody formal joey realize team
It's back at the hotel. I didn't realize this was a formal occasion. Pretty much everybody on the team has one. I think Joey (Porter) was the mastermind behind it.
formal realize
It's back at the hotel. I didn't realize this was a formal occasion.
great means miss send
I'm going to miss him. The Steelers are going to miss him. To send him off like this means the world to me. He's a great person.
choose everybody great hole pick run thinking vision
Everybody is just thinking that he's the big guy, he's The Bus, and he's going to run you down. He's got a great vision from the field, too. He can pick and choose where the hole is.
both effort good great season shown sides takes
I think it's a really good assessment. They've shown all season what they can do offensively and defensively and how well they can do it on both sides of the ball, that it takes a great effort just to play on their level.
against staff works
I think our staff as a whole has a better feel for what works against a 3-4 better than most teams.
ball beat ben few past run teams
I think teams know we're going to try to run the ball on them, and they want to make Ben beat them. These past few weeks, Ben's been doing just that.
beat counted happened last lost matters year
It's a loss. We are 2-1. What happened last year doesn't matter. We beat them once and lost to them once. We lost to them when it counted and that's all that matters about last year.