Joey Porter
Joey Porter
Joseph Eugene Porteris a former American football linebacker who played thirteen seasons in the National Football League, and is the current outside linebackers coach for the Pittsburgh Steelers. After playing college football at Colorado State, he was drafted by the Steelers in the third round of the 1999 NFL Draft. A four-time Pro Bowl selection, Porter earned a Super Bowl ring with the Steelers in Super Bowl XL against the Seattle Seahawks. He played for the Miami Dolphins from 2007...
giving kept offense plugging score stick team
The offense kept plugging away and giving us opportunities. Then we let them score another touchdown. At the end of the game, we did what we had to do, but you don't want to let a team like that stick around. You have to put a team like that away early.
matter
That's the goal. Anything else we do doesn't matter if we don't make the playoffs.
answer bigger people reason special time waiting
The bigger story is what I say. The big story isn't how I go out there and play football. The bigger story is what he's going to say next. That's the only reason why I have people waiting for me right now. I'm not going to give you anything special but to answer these questions, one at a time, and I'm going to take my time doing it.
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That's all wrong. They were picked to go to the Super Bowl a long time ago, and we took the scenic route to get here.
good hear needed spoke turn
It was good to hear it, I needed that. He spoke out of turn right there.
asking
They are killing me. They're asking me about everything but football.
front guy lines meet says
A guy that says something that lines up in front of me every play, you've got to be like that. We have to meet. We have to meet over and over and over.
answer fishing looking questions time
I'm not going to give you anything, but to answer these questions one at a time, and I'll take my time doing it. I can tell when you're looking for something, fishing for something.
appreciate came hard journey lean position tough
We were able to lean on each other through the tough times, and that's what makes me appreciate the position I'm in now. I know where I came from, and I know how hard the journey was for me to get here. So I really try to appreciate everything I get.
anybody brother face gotta older shortcut taught
My older brother taught me that there was no such thing as a shortcut home. If that's the way I gotta go home, I can't let anybody make me take a shortcut. I had to face that bully.
came coach money pleasure shocked tells turned
He shocked everybody. He told us he came here because it would be a pleasure to coach us. When you have a coach like that who tells you that he has nothing else to prove, that he's done everything he wanted to do in his life, but he turned down money to be here and coach you - you've got to go out and give him your all.
eight forget gets guy nine played pressure situations
You can forget he's a second-year guy because he's out there so poised. He's not nervous. I've been around a lot of quarterbacks. I've been around quarterbacks who have played eight or nine years and are put in pressure situations and the pressure gets to them.
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I saw a month ago on TV saying they were going to make everyone with long hair cut it off. And he said he'd never do it. He doesn't care what they say, he'd never do it.
ball craziest games good playoffs
That was one of the craziest games I've ever been in. I feel good the ball actually bounced our way in the playoffs one time.