My plan is two years from now people will be talking about me as one of the great linebackers that's played.

I knew I wasn't going to have many plays, ... I wanted to make an impact early.

It's nothing personal with those guys. We're all friends, ... But I've got bragging rights for the next year, point blank. I can brag. They can't.

He definitely helped my career. I wanted to be a sponge. I wanted to learn from him.

Sometimes you talk to coaches and they don't understand ... the things that happen at the snap of the ball.

That's not true. Things happen. Linemen get cut off, gaps get closed, backs don't run exactly where they're supposed to run, receivers don't run exact routes. (Singletary) knows that, because he's played through it and he understands when you tell him something that you only get through experience on the field. He'll make those adjustments so you can go out there and play.

Every linebacker on that team had some bad habits to get rid of, and that's what he did, improved all our shuffling and our reads and made us all better, every last one of us - even Ray.

They came in here with the attitude that they were going to bully us around.