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Coming from League One, a lot of tackles go in, and that is where I've learned my trade.

As a football player, you just deal with injuries. It's all part of the football game. I've dealt with injuries as much as everybody else. People have dealt with worse injuries than I've dealt with. It's all part of the game, all part of getting that tackle.

The third-down sacks are critical ones, 'cause that's getting off the field.

Everybody goes through situations like this. A tipped ball, a shoe-string tackle on a third-down scramble by the quarterback where he has 40 yards to run.

I am not a coach for the tackles, so I do not train them.

You look at stats for a guy who is a pretty good linebacker, he'll make 100 tackles. You make 100, you're averaging seven or eight tackles a game. If you play every down, that's a good number.

I have three Defensive Players of the Year. Only one other player has done that. But being a defensive lineman, it's hard to control the game.

I think I could handle right tackle. With great coaches, I think I can handle anything.

When you play quarterback, you have to process information quickly, get the ball out of your hand to the right guy.