(Colts linebackers) David Thornton and Gary Brackett helped me out a tremendous amount, basically teaching me how to play the position.

It's not about (the Seahawks), really. It's about us. It's about us being prepared for the weeks to come. We have to get our momentum back.

Switching positions was probably the easiest thing for me to do. All I have to do is sit there in zone coverage, and that's helped me a lot. It's really just a matter of playing the way we play defense, which is to read and react.

That sounds pretty good for the time being. But you can't really think about that because we've got a job to do. They're throwing the football to us, and, fortunately, I'm catching them.

It's his first start. We knew it was going to be a little rough on him. We knew he would give us opportunities and he did.

It's about going out there, no matter who you're playing. People try to put hype on it like they did last week, like it was the biggest game ever. No it wasn't. It was the eighth game.

They didn't want (Smith) to hold it very long because Mathis and Freeney and those guys, they're coming. That gives our back seven an opportunity to key in on receivers.

They took a long road to get there, and they made it happen. Troy and Joey, they're great playmakers. It's going to be fun to play with them instead of playing against them.

Reading the quarterback is a simple thing. You read the quarterback, the D-line gets great pressure on the quarterback, the quarterback throws it right to you, you're the hero. That's always fun.

We have a lot of fighters on this team. There's no quit in us. We've been down before. We'll buckle down, get out there and handle business.