Pats chatter

Comments from the Patriots locker room after the game:

WR Jabar Gaffney
(on his 56-yard touchdown catch)
"The play was called Ravens Special. We had it in for last week but we never got to use it. I knew it was going to be a touchdown."

LB Tedy Bruschi
(on the game and the days that led up to it)
"The theme of the week was to go back to being a smart and tough football team. We have been doing some things the past couple weeks that we wanted to fix. We talked about fixing these things with just being a smart team because that’s what you have to be to beat a team like this."

S Rodney Harrison
(on making the goal-line stop on Hines Ward on fourth down)
"I’ve seen that play over the course of my career maybe four or five times, when the wide receiver lines up wide and comes across on motion and they hand it off to him. Once he started motioning in - Hines is a big, physical receiver who likes to run the ball, [an] ex-quarterback - I figured they were going to run that play and I was able to come and make the play, along with all the other guys blowing up things to get myself, as well as someone else free to make that tackle."

NT Vince Wilfork
(on the difference between the win and last Monday's win in Baltimore)
"It might sound funny but I think we played with more emotion tonight. I think we really did. I could see guys running to the football, guys having fun on the field and I think [Richard] Seymour or [Mike] Vrabel, one of them turned to me and he was like ‘you know the problem is [when] we [aren't] having fun’. We always play good when we’re having fun. I think last week we lacked that. Today we didn’t lack it."

DL Richard Seymour
(on how he feels physically)
"Not quite 100 yet, but moving in the right direction. It’s just good to get a win at this point. 13-and-0, one step closer and it’s a quality opponent. That’s always good. This is the time of year when you want to play your best football."