Cato June
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"Cato Nnamdi June" is a high-school football coach and former American football linebacker. He was selected by the Indianapolis Colts of the National Football League (NFL) in the sixth round of the 2003 NFL Draft. A 2006 Pro Bowl choice, June was a member of the Super Bowl XLI champion Colts. During the Super Bowl championship season, June was the Colts' leading Tackle (football move)/tackler. In addition to his tenure with the Colts, he played in the NFL for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Before becoming a professional, he played college football at Michigan Wolverines football/Michigan and was an outstanding athlete in high school football, basketball, track and field and baseball at Anacostia High School in Washington, D.C. As a senior, he was widely regarded to be the best high school football player in the District of Columbia.

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It's his first start. We knew it was going to be a little rough on him. We knew he would give us opportunities and he did.

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We were able to come back today. We showed a lot of character and stayed poised and didn't get down, ... But we have to come in next week and try to do better.

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We were definitely shocked. We want to keep them to no points, and I don't care if it's the best offense in the league. We can't give up 17 points in the first quarter. We have to go back and look at what we did wrong.

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We were 17 down. We had to go out and get the ball back, ... Seventeen points in the first quarter, that can't happen.

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They didn't want (Smith) to hold it very long because Mathis and Freeney and those guys, they're coming. That gives our back seven an opportunity to key in on receivers.

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That sounds pretty good for the time being. But you can't really think about that because we've got a job to do. They're throwing the football to us, and, fortunately, I'm catching them.

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When the opportunity came to make big plays, we made them.

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I take my hat off to our D-line. They force a lot of quarterbacks to throw under pressure. They'll make any quarterback nervous.

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Switching positions was probably the easiest thing for me to do. All I have to do is sit there in zone coverage, and that's helped me a lot. It's really just a matter of playing the way we play defense, which is to read and react.

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