“When they made their run, and to their credit they made a great run, we went to zone for a little bit to change it up a little bit.”
Jim Redmon
“We wanted to attack the baseline, because when they run a 3-2 zone, we know the baseline and high post are the weaknesses of that zone. And our guards did a good job of penetrating.”
Gail Goestenkors
“You know it's hard to run it into the end zone when you're down from the 6 to about the 2. It's nice to run it in from 10 to 15 because the defense is looser.”
Al Johnson
“When you can run the ball, it definitely helps the passing game. The linebackers can't drop back into their zones as quickly. We're going to try to start quickly in the running game.”
Daunte Culpepper
“Loren, you just kind of ride him. When he's in a zone like that, he's impossible to guard.”
Tom Pecora
“When things could go bad, it went bad, ... It was almost like a bad episode of 'The Twilight Zone.”
“We just ride him. When he's in that zone and he's impossible to guard out there, it's easy.”