Champ Bailey
Champ Bailey
Roland "Champ" Bailey Jr.is a former American football cornerback in the National Football League. He played college football for Georgia, where he earned consensus All-American honors, and was drafted by the Washington Redskins in the first round of the 1999 NFL Draft...
ProfessionFootball Player
Date of Birth22 June 1978
CityFolkston, GA
coverage guy mug skills speed stay true valuable value
That's not true at all. The value has risen. Think about it. If you can't mug a guy down the field, isn't it more valuable to have the speed and coverage skills to stay with him?
afraid ball cross goal hoping knew
I was afraid that it went out of the end zone, but I really wasn't sure. All I knew was that he got me right before I got to the pylon, so I was hoping the ball didn't cross the goal line.
difference last special time
I think we have all our people, that's the difference this time around. If we have all of our players, which we didn't in the last two playoffs, we can do special things.
responding sports tough
I think we're tough when we do things like that. We were responding to some things they like to do. We're active.
both looking plays run teams
I think both teams can do other things and make plays doing something else. But when you get down to it, both offenses want to run it. And when they run it, they're not looking for just first downs, they're looking to take charge.
emphasis everybody looking
I think all the emphasis has made it even more valuable, ... Everybody is looking for those players.
good shot spot
just a good shot right on the right spot in the rib cage.
believed nobody season
I said it before the season and I believed it. I said this was a championship-level team. We believed that, even if nobody else did.
blows knows respect whistle
I respect his game, but he knows when the whistle blows we'll go at each other's throats.
finally fortunate run throw year
We finally got a quarterback that didn't throw it away. We got to him. That's what we've been doing all year but we just had quarterbacks that just run out of there and throw it away. We hadn't been fortunate enough to get those sacks, but we got them today.
figured instead staying switched
We figured they'd try it again, and they did. Only this time, instead of staying with our men, we switched off.
course
Over the course of time, I could feel it getting tighter and tighter,
game hard knock knows studies
John, he knows everything, he studies the game very hard and he'll knock you out.
game
I take it one play, one game at a time, ... I don't look any further.