Shawn Springs
Shawn Springs
Shawn Springsis a former American college and professional football player who was a cornerback in the National Football Leaguefor 13 seasons. He played college football for Ohio State University, and earned All-American honors. He was drafted by the Seattle Seahawks third overall in the 1997 NFL Draft, he played professionally for the Seahawks, Washington Redskins and New England Patriots of the NFL, and was a Pro Bowl selection in 1998...
ProfessionFootball Player
Date of Birth11 March 1975
high love school
It's cool, man, ... There's a lot of love when you go to high school in this area.
capitalize good matt seen
Hey, Matt's a good player, man; I've seen him do it before. If Shaun's not the MVP, it's not like Matt couldn't be. He can move. We didn't capitalize like we should.
help
As a player, if you're about the team, you do what you can to help them.
bill cowboys jock locker
In the locker room, they would tell me, 'Go get me a jock strap in the back room' or something, ... So I would go over to the Cowboys complex. Bill Bates would say, 'Shawn, go get me a Gatorade.'
best help
As a player, you're about the team. You do the best you can do to help out the team.
game might returned
It might have been a different game if there was an interception returned for a touchdown.
change
He said you're going to go up there and change the program.
boys drop might prepared using
The way they're using me, you never know where I'm at, ... Tell the boys I might just drop out of the sky, so they'd better be prepared for anything.
bad defense pressure stop talking telling
I was talking to the Seahawks around that time, telling them I wanted to get traded. We were bad on defense -- couldn't stop the run, couldn't pressure the passer -- and it was just killing me.
fly san
They wouldn't let me fly to San Fran because of my concussion.
expect expected held mature ninth studied supposed
He's held up well, ... When you're the ninth pick, you're not supposed to look like a rookie; you're supposed to look sharp, and that's what I expect out of him. He's a very mature young man, he's studied a lot of film, and I don't look at him as a rookie. When you're a top-10 pick, you're expected to come in and play.
battling bombed night playing sunday
We've been playing well so far. Let's keep it at that. I don't want to go out Sunday night and get bombed or something like that. We've been playing well, and we've just been battling through injuries.
block four game kindness laughed open saw time wide
We kind of laughed when we saw that they were going to open it up like that. You can't come out with four wide receivers all the time on us, not with Gregg. No one can block Gregg all game like that.
ran team
We were just overmatched. We ran into a team that was just better than us.