Michael Strahan
Michael Strahan
Michael Anthony Strahanis a retired American football defensive end who spent his entire 15-year career with the New York Giants of the National Football League. Strahan set a record for the most sacks in a season in 2001, and won a Super Bowl in his final season in 2007. After retiring from the NFL, Strahan became a media personality. He is currently a football analyst on Fox NFL Sunday, and has also served as co-host on the syndicated morning talk...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionFootball Player
Date of Birth21 November 1971
CityHouston, TX
CountryUnited States of America
I think everyone's been disciplined. Everyone's been in the gaps they're supposed to get in and guys are making gang tackles, not waiting for guys to make the play, and everybody's running to the ball.
I think he's definitely been under more pressure before. He's smart enough to realize in the long run it's still just a game anyway. It's a playoff game and maybe the tempo picks up a little bit more, and of course everything is at stake, but at the same time it's still football.
We have to be a lot crisper. We have to be sharp. Defensively, we can't give up any big plays and let them move the ball at will. They have a great running game. We're going to have to stop the run. That's first and foremost.
We have to be a lot crisper. We have to be sharp, ... Defensively, we can't give up any big plays and let them move the ball at will. They have a great running game. We're going to have to stop the run. That's first and foremost.
He was back there so quick that he beat the running back to the ball.
That's probably one of our biggest spikes on our team, that whole combination of the three guys inside, one who is an aggressive linebacker who can run like the wind and two tackles who are athletic and strong. That's why people can't run on us - the middle has been pretty stout.
Everybody's professional. Nobody's an idiot. Nobody's a jerk. We all know each other. So it's not like we see each other in the city and we run over and bust the window out of their car with a baseball bat or nothing. We're all friends.
It is something like basically getting stabbed in the heart. These are the type of games you look back on at the end of the season and just hope they don't hurt you.
I thought Seattle was a very good team, but did I expect them to be in the Super Bowl? I thought if they were going to be there they'd have to go through us.
I think we were a team, but we were a little unsure. We had a new quarterback, there were a lot of different things we had to have answered. This year I just don't have that feeling. Even though Eli's young, I just don't have that feeling that we're as unsure of ourselves.
We'd stopped them a couple of times to help us get back in the game, but we come out in the second half and can't get the job done. That's very frustrating.
We had a lot of mistakes, a lot of things that potentially could hurt us. If we can eliminate those things and continue to do everything else the way that we're doing, I think the sky is the limit.
I think I've done just about everything I could do as a leader, ... You lead by words, by example.
There are similarities. There is loss, there is tragedy. Still guys have to be able to focus. Football is football.