The feeling I get is that we are very much the underdog in this game. We were very much the favorite against Denver, so how you deal with your team is quite different.

The tough thing in this league about playing the linebacker position is that as a rookie you are seeing many things for the first time and you are going against athletes that you didn't always play against when you were in college. The physical part of it is tough, but they have handled that beautifully. Then it was just a matter if they could handle the volumes of material that are expanded a little bit when you get into our league.

Randy was, in my opinion, the best. He really was the best. We played against him so many times; there aren't many guys like him around.

As happy as the other locker room is, that's how disappointed we are. I think we were careless with the football and had too many penalties. And that combination against a good team like Pittsburgh is not a good combination.

As good as we were (in the 34-15 win over) New Orleans, ... we were that sloppy against Dallas (on Monday). While we did some good things with our first group in the first quarter, we were careless.

As clean as we were against New Orleans, we were that sloppy against Dallas tonight. We were just careless. That was kind of how it went.

There were some guys who made some great plays, but we did drop the ball uncharacteristically. ...We played against a good team, and you can't overcome those things.

There's a lot of reasons this is an important game. You don't want to have a losing streak against anybody.