I knew he was special from the first day when he took over the huddle. The huddle, that?s the linebacker?s house.

When I first faced him in '98, I knew he and (Roy) Halladay both had special stuff,

That's one of the best crews out there. When I saw them huddle, I knew they were going to get it right.

Coming out of the Dallas game and through that Giants game, that's when things really started to pick up for us. We've had players go down and other guys had to step in, but everything kept going. We didn't miss a beat.

I think everybody knew he was going to be special, but we didn't know when. Just like Joe had a presence, Steve had a presence. It was different, but it was there. We just knew we were lucky to have two guys like that.

It really is something special that you can always remember. We knew we had to be perfect in the first 20 minutes or they would run over us.