52 Quotes by Steve Hutchinson

Up until (Friday), everything was about me being new, the poison pill, the contract and what the league wants to do to amend the rule or whatever. Now it is back to football and putting on a helmet and being able to play. You can kind of put that behind you, so it's nice.

This team is really coming together, making plays for each other.

We kind of knocked the rust off a little bit. We had a light practice, meetings, got back into it a little bit and tried to get back in a normal schedule. (Monday) was a good start for us.

Even though we really don't see each other as much as we'd like, we talk a lot, probably once a week. We helped each other out as a rookie: 'What are you seeing? What's going on here?' You're a little intimidated and you don't want to ask the veterans on your own team questions. We kind of tried to help each other out that way.

I've been blessed. I pride myself on my motivation.

You really don't need it (then). This year, it's kind of smack dab in the middle, which is nice. You can really take advantage of it. You can really use the rest.

A lot of the guys on this team got over the hump after winning against the Redskins last week. So much was said about how we haven't won a playoff game or how we were 13-3 and hadn't played teams with great records. Our defense is probably the worst rated of the 12 teams in the playoffs. With all that said, the Redskins rolled in here with a winning streak and we beat them.

They had a lot of guys in the box. It was like beating your head against the wall.

It was special. An offensive lineman doesn't really have stats for himself, so any time you can get the rushing record or a touchdown record like that it's big for us, too.