Chuck Darby on The Superbowl

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by Chuck Darby

In Tampa, we only had one week and we went straight to San Diego for the Super Bowl. So this is different. This week is filled with a lot of emotions because we’re excited about winning the NFC and know we’re going to Detroit. Right now, everybody is ready to go already. This extra week just gets us going a little more about the game.

It’s the Super Bowl, and it’s what everybody dreams of in training camp, but only two teams get there and it feels great to be one of them. You can’t be more excited than that. Right now, I don’t think it’s hit everybody yet. Everyone is excited and we’re talking about everything. But it’s different. Only the guys who have been there know how different it is.

Once we get to Detroit, it will be a different story and we’ll get more focused on the game.

The stage is set. We’re looking at the best team in the AFC, the Pittsburgh Steelers – a team with all that history. So what we’re talking about now is taking everything that we’ve put in our bag of tricks all season to win games. We take all the small things and all the intangibles we’ve gained all season that made us the good team that we are. Then you put all that together and throw it into the well.

And when we come out for the game in Detroit, we want to be the best team in the NFL. Nobody ever, ever, remembers the team that lost the game. They only remember the team that won the game. That’s one thing I know for sure.

To me, everybody around the world and the U.S. is counting us out because we’re playing the Pittsburgh Steelers. We understand that. We don’t like it. But we understand it, and we’re using that as motivation. That’s why on one hand it makes us mad, but it’s good at the same time. We put everything on the line with a little more energy because you’re mad about other people downgrading you. You’ve got to prove it to them. We proved it to them against the Washington Redskins. We proved it to them against the Carolina Panthers.

But they’re right until we prove them wrong against the Pittsburgh Steelers. We’ve made it to the top of the mountain, but there is somebody waiting for us, so we have to get them off. We all see it, now it’s just a matter of executing our offense, defense and special teams the way we have all year, and the big prize will be ours.