43 Quotes by Adewale Ogunleye

We didn't show up today. It's a big disappointment to us that we didn't play well for the city of Chicago. Our offense did a good job. But we didn't play well as a defense, top to bottom.

We didn't show up. The offense played great.

We knew we had nay-sayers, and rightly so. (Carolina) was a team that everybody said was going to the Super Bowl. We looked at their schedule and looked at ours and felt this was really their first test of somebody that came to play.

You have to work on that first step, getting off on the ball. That kind of dictates what's going to happen. And then there's a secondary move. But the biggest thing to rush the passer is that first step.

You have to understand that the '85 Bears run this city. This is their city. They've got commercials, car deals. Whatever they want to do, they can do it -- and they deserve it. To be put in the same sentence is an honor, but I think the '85 Bears were in a league of their own.

Brian is the leader of the No. 1 defense in the league. You can go either way, and I'm sure Brian would say Thomas Jones, but he's right at the top.

Didn't affect us at all. As a defensive end, it has absolutely no bearing on me. It shouldn't affect Sundays. On Sundays, I promise you, everyone forgets about all of that.

Everything is going to come down to what defense plays the best, and which is going to make the least amount of mistakes. It's definitely going to be a defensive struggle.

I've seen teams win Super Bowls like that. Defense wins championships in this league, and I don't see why we should be any different.