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STEELERS
POST-GAME QUOTES STEELERS PLAYERS General “Our defense just persevered, and
that’s what great teams do. We still have one more step to go, but we’ll
enjoy this. We’re a road team. We’re the Pittsburgh Steelers, it
doesn’t matter [where we play]. We have fans
everywhere.” OG ALAN
FANECA On Roethlisberger
“He’s everything you want in a
quarterback. We wouldn’t be where we are today without him leading our
offense. I think he’s just more relaxed this year, and it comes through
experience. It’s not just X’s and O’s. He still understands the
basics, but he also has that game-feel. I think teams know we’re going to
try to run the ball on them, and they want to make Ben beat them. These
past few weeks, Ben’s been doing just that.” Joey Porter On Current Position “We just need to worry about our own
story, and not get caught up in what other people are doing. We’ve been in
this game plenty of times, we felt like we had a great opportunity and we
capitalized on it.” General “It hasn’t sunk in yet but we are
going to the dance, everyone said we couldn’t do it being the sixth seed.
We just took the scenic route, it is my third time in the AFC Championship but
we finally won.” “I’ve seen people hold this trophy
up in my house twice, I’m just happy this is what it’s all
about. On defensive Coordinator Dick
LeBeau “He comes in and makes everything
easier for us, he is just one of those guys you don’t want to let done.
You know his system works because it has worked everywhere he has been. He
is the type of coach you would do anything for. On success of
defense “It’s all about pressure, we really
got after him (Jake Plummer). I felt like I could beat their tackles off
the end and was able to keep containment when he would bootleg to my
side. Clark Haggans On this
season “This season was filled with
adversity for us. We were sitting, looking at an outside shot to be in the
Super Bowl. This is an unbelievable feeling to be here right now. We
knew we had a lot of hard work ahead of us after week 12, we had to win out to
keep our season alive. We’ve knocked down seven of the eight, we just have
one more to go. On next
game We are just going to have to watch
tape and wait to see who we will play, whether it be
General “I’m speechless, the last time I
played here it was against the “We can say that we earned our way
to the Super Bowl. It’s just unreal. We needed to take it one game
at a time and now we are taking Jerome (Bettis) home to
Kimo von
Oelhoffen General “The offense won the game for us
today, they kept us on the field and held on to the ball. They won the
game for us. We just played football just like we did the last six
weeks. Nothing special that’s just how good the Steeler’s
are.” Cedric Wilson On Game
Plan “I didn’t know I was going to be
featured, they stacked the box and the coaches left it up to the receivers to
make plays down the field.” On the defensive end Domonique
Foxworth “You always want to go after the
young guys, and we were successful against him. This is just a stepping
stone for us, we have one more game and we have to make the best of it.
I’m very excited, very happy and I’m going to the Super
Bowl.” Willie
Williams On AFC
Championship “Oh nothing new this time, we just
have to go there and finish. This is a different team from 1995 and
hopefully we will have a different result.” General “Everyone doubted us from the
beginning, being the number sixth seed, they said we couldn’t win but now we
have.” On
“ Chris Hope General “It’s great to go to the Super Bowl
in just my fourth year. We could have been playing in back-to-back Super
Bowls, but last year we weren’t able to get it done (AFC Championship
game). “I can’t say enough about how our
offense has been playing, in the middle of the season they were moving the ball
but we weren’t scoring. We’ve turned that around in the end of the season
and in the playoffs. “We got up on them early, our focus
this week picked up where it left off from last week. We were able to contain
Willie Parker General “The way we (got to the Super Bowl)
is an unbelievable feeling, especially since we fell short last year. This
team has been together since day one and we developed a lot of chemistry.
We hit them in the mouth and jumped on them early, and we were able to take the
12th man out of the game which was huge.” Ike Taylor General “We knew it would be a hard journey,
but we all stuck together. I’m still in game mode right now, we’ve had our
back against the wall being a sixth seed. Not a lot of people thought we
could do it.” On
interception “I missed about ten interceptions
this year, we got good pressure up front and I knew it was only a matter of time
before I got my hands on one.” On Defensive Coordinator Dick
LeBeau “He came up with a great game plan,
we call him the wizard around here. He always puts us in a great
position. We I got my interception, I went and gave him the ball.”
Larry Foote General “It’s been a dream all year leading
up to this point especially knowing it’s (the Super Bowl) is in my
hometown. We had some bumps in the road but we got here. (Jerome Bettis)
Demanded that we bring him home and we did it.” Alan Faneca General “We expected it to be a challenge
coming in here, but the defense stepped up and got us the ball. Ben
(Roethlisberger) really learned the offense this year, having another year of
experience under his belt. He was able to play football instinctively
today and play a little bit looser.”
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