As the older guy, I'm in the meetings and it's like, 'Here we go again with this defense. I wonder who's going to mess this up,' ... I give them a little hard time when they mess up something they should know, but that comes along with experience.

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As long as we're in meetings going over the routes and how to play them and talking out the defense when we're out on the field, I think we'll be on the same page and be successful back there, no matter who we put in there.

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— Earl Holmes

Sometimes it was nice cutbacks by the running backs. Sometimes we had some guys out of the gap. It wasn't like they were just blowing us off the ball. When you've got a good cutback runner, you've got to play your gap.

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