38 Quotes by Zach Thomas

That was a steal. To get a Pro Bowl-caliber quarterback, really a franchise quarterback, it can't get no better than that for a second-round pick, now. Come on. I was excited. Hopefully, his health will be fine and we've got a lot of talent around him.

We're definitely going to be running our tails off because of today. We just got outplayed. They really dominated us.

We're changing so many things, it's causing confusion for other teams. In the past, it's always been so simple. Now we're making offenses think a little bit. They don't know where I'm going to be.

We practiced horribly this week. We had it coming. We had some of our worst practices of the year this week and we got outplayed today because of it.

We're trying to do what the Patriots have done. We've got a long way to go, but those guys know how to win. They've been there. They've done that. That's what we're striving to do.

We killed ourselves on defense, man. Let them beat you; don't let yourselves beat you.

This was about the offense winning for us. I'm not sure, for all the time I've been here, I can say the offense had won a game when the defense didn't play well.

We should have gotten on this run earlier. That's why we're not going to the playoffs. There are plenty of games we're looking back on now and saying, 'Man, we'd be in the playoff hunt if we just pulled one or two of those games out.' We shot ourselves in the foot early.

We had some big plays on third down that we missed. We've gotta get better and we will, I promise you that. This ain't the same old Dolphins. We're going to get better -- we had a rough day and we wish we had some of those plays back, but we're going to improve. I promise you that.