They ripped my helmet off and punched me in the face when I was in the pile. The offensive guy ran the wrong route and the quarterback threw deep, right to me.

He kind of scooped up a pile of offensive linemen and just started shaking everybody until the guy with the ball fell out. It was like a cartoon.

There was nothing flat about that, ... When you get punched in the face, that's what happens. That's an excuse: Flat didn't drop balls. Flat didn't miss assignments. Flat didn't commit penalties and miss tackles.

When The Helmet Comes Off

You'd get punched in the face. Everybody in the room gets to punch you in the face. ... It just doesn't happen. It is not something that happens in this building.

Usually in fist fights you get punched in the face.