I really didn't see it as overshadowing me, ... He's been in the league so long. He's earned his stripes. I was a young cat coming up, doing the things I had to do to earn my stripes. I made my plays. As the years moved on, I earned my stripes. The fans knew who I was when I stepped on the field. When you play next to Ray, you have to do a lot of things to get noticed.

They came in here with the attitude that they were going to bully us around.

Every linebacker on that team had some bad habits to get rid of, and that's what he did, improved all our shuffling and our reads and made us all better, every last one of us - even Ray,

That's not true. Things happen. Linemen get cut off, gaps get closed, backs don't run exactly where they're supposed to run, receivers don't run exact routes. (Singletary) knows that, because he's played through it and he understands when you tell him something that you only get through experience on the field. He'll make those adjustments so you can go out there and play.

Sometimes you talk to coaches and they don't understand ... the things that happen at the snap of the ball,

He definitely helped my career. I wanted to be a sponge. I wanted to learn from him.