Zach Thomas
Zach Thomas
Zachary Michael Thomasis a former American college and professional football player who was a middle linebacker in the National Football Leaguefor thirteen seasons. He played college football for Texas Tech University, and was recognized as a unanimous All-American. He was drafted by the Miami Dolphins in the fifth round of the 1996 NFL Draft, and played for the Dolphins his first twelve seasons in the NFL. He was selected to the Pro Bowl seven times and recorded 1,100 tackles...
ProfessionFootball Player
Date of Birth1 September 1973
CityPampa, TX
Seems like every year at this time I give you an excuse. Then I say what has to be done, and we do it, and the next year there's a different excuse. But what they've done this year is pack the team with so much talent that we won't be able to blow it. We're so loaded that there just won't be any excuses.
We should have gotten on this run earlier. That's why we're not going to the playoffs. There are plenty of games we're looking back on now and saying, 'Man, we'd be in the playoff hunt if we just pulled one or two of those games out.' We shot ourselves in the foot early.
They put us in a hole and it changed the whole game.
You're not going to stay because he likes you. That's why I feel like I have to stay healthy and be here as long as I can. They're going to bring a championship here.
On defense, we can be really good this year. Hopefully, we can just keep it together. We throw in new stuff every week. But we've got to be on the same page every week. If we get that down, we can be very dominant.
They got it done right from the opening drive. We didn't have any momentum because we didn't get off the field and when we finally scored and got back into the game, two plays and we let them score.
They did wear us out. You have to give credit to the Chiefs. They have a good offense and we gave them some things, including myself. ... You could tell the energy wasn't there for us, and you can't play football without a spark. There was nothing there.
I know that we are going to be a lot better when the Jets come down and play us and they will be too, but hopefully we get even better than them.
I'm just proud of the guys, because when we were 3-7, we could have shut it down. And guys kept fighting.
I guess you could say things have gone our way.
I promise that once we get clicking on defense we are going to be real good. We were off today and we weren't very good.
He bounced back today. You've got to give him credit. He hit the plays when they needed it and we were just inconsistent.
That just shows how much depth they've got. They don't miss a beat when the starters are out of the game.
It might have been 70 percent. Probably not that much, but it was a lot.