John Thornton Game Quotations

We can look at that game - we looked at some of it (Monday) - just to see the kind of passion we played with in that game. Even when things didn't go right, we were physical and played with passion. That's how you have to play in this league. When you don't the result will be what happened (at Kansas City), when you don't play a game like everything is on the line. I think this team knows the type of attitude we have to play with.

Just to see the kind of passion we played with in that game, even when things didn't go right. That's how you've got to play. And when you don't, the result will be what happened (in Kansas City) when you don't play a game like everything's on the line.

We beat those same teams, and we blew them out. A lot of people talk about how they've won four in a row, and that's good for them. But we beat those teams, too. I don't think that has anything to do with the playoffs. It's about who starts fast in this game and who makes the plays.

We need to go play well and get our confidence back. It'll be good in the sense that we have another game to play (before the playoffs). We haven't played well at home in the last three games.

Sacks are good - if you're up for your contract. You get turnovers, that's big. That's not saying we don't want sacks, but I'd rather have not lost a game than have a bunch of sacks.

It took the running game out. They still tried to run a few drives. Once we got up 14-0 and 21-0, we really didn't worry about the run game. It was just trying to keep Culpepper in the pocket and make him throw from there.

It wasn't some huge game plan. You try to get turnovers. We just wanted to make tackles and not let Culpepper scramble.