Mike Rucker
Mike Rucker
Michael Dean Ruckeris a former American football defensive end who played eight seasons for the Carolina Panthers of the National Football League. He played college football for the University of Nebraska, and was drafted by the Panthers in the second round of the 1999 NFL Draft...
ProfessionFootball Player
Date of Birth28 February 1975
talk
We don't talk with our mouths! We talk with our pads!
beating everybody found funny problem talk
There for a while we had a problem beating them here. It's funny how everybody has found another thing to talk about.
best kept mouths pads somebody talk tough week
It was tough this week not to talk with our mouth. It's tough to have them keep slamming you. But we kept our mouths shut. The best way to show somebody is to put the big-boy pads on, and that's what we did.
anybody energy field focus humble inward mouth shut talk team type
It was frustrating to keep your mouth shut all week. What we did was focus that energy inward and let it out on the field today. That's all that matters. Anybody can talk.... We don't do that. We feel like we're a humble type of team and organization. And we talk with our pads.
next talk time
At least now, next time we play them we can talk about other things like football.
against anybody definitely next talk team time winning worry
This team is good. We'll see them definitely one more time, and if anybody has anything to do with it, we'll probably see them again. So the next time we play them, we don't have to worry about that. We can talk about something else, we can talk about football. We don't have to worry about not ever winning against him.
buy coaches guys owners players quick speak talks
It's just a little quick time, and then we go about our business. But the guys really buy into it. You know, he (Fox) talks to us all the time. The coaches talk to you all the time. The owners talk to you all the time. But it's different when players speak to players.
mark
That day was tough. Because it was like the punctuation mark to that season.
feeling messing training
We'll still be messing with him in the training room. We need to keep (him) feeling connected.
bowl defensive dust ends good playoffs sets settle super
We'll see when all of the playoffs settle down and the Super Bowl is done. You have some good sets of defensive ends out there and to get where we want to go we'll have to see them. We'll see after the dust clears.
command single
He's going to command the double-team, ... and if you single him up, he's going to make you pay.
carry line weight
But at the end of the day, we're going to carry more weight because we're the line and we're the foundation.
mobile plays version younger
He's kind of like a younger version of Brett Favre. You don't see him as a mobile quarterback. He made some plays today.
version younger
He's kind of like a younger version of Brett Favre.