Zach Thomas
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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
I'm going to be a jerk, but I don't care. I didn't say anything all week. We let guys slide and got too comfortable. We've got to work harder and answer on game days.
He was huge. The guy takes up a lot of gaps and does a great job of getting push. He does a great job of plugging.
It might have been 70 percent. Probably not that much, but it was a lot.
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.
He has showed he's committed to the team, and he's a good guy. He doesn't want it to be about him. He wants it to be about the team.
Don't even try to type him. It's a waste of time. He'll never repeat tendencies.
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.
I've got two days of film work to do in one,
I am sure by the time the game starts later in the week it will be a packed crowd. You have to start winning and get an identity, like Coach Saban says. Once you start doing that, you'll fill that stadium up and it won't be a problem.
I guess you could say things have gone our way.
We had some big plays on third down that we missed. We've gotta get better and we will, I promise you that. This ain't the same old Dolphins. We're going to get better -- we had a rough day and we wish we had some of those plays back, but we're going to improve. I promise you that.
We're changing so many things, it's causing confusion for other teams. In the past, it's always been so simple. Now we're making offenses think a little bit. They don't know where I'm going to be.
We killed ourselves on defense, man. Let them beat you; don't let yourselves beat you.
We practiced horribly this week. We had it coming. We had some of our worst practices of the year this week and we got outplayed today because of it.