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"If you take the best offense, I don't know, say, New Orleans, and you take us as a defense, that's not necessarily going to make the best team," Polamalu said. "The reason why is, they may pass the ball a lot, but, if they go three-and-out, three-and-out, three-and-out and score a touchdown fast, that's not the way our defense plays, that's not the way we play.
"We swarm to the ball, we play man-to-man a lot, we always have our back turned [to the ball], we're always playing high-intensity football. You take a team like Indianapolis, for example, which is always dropping back, always has vision [at the quarterback], always zone-dropping, you don't need nearly as much energy [to play that defense].
"You could probably count how much they actually run and compare how much we have to run, and it may be two games to one, in that sense. Not only that, we play a very physical brand of football. We're not meant to be out there very long."
"We swarm to the ball, we play man-to-man a lot, we always have our back turned [to the ball], we're always playing high-intensity football. You take a team like Indianapolis, for example, which is always dropping back, always has vision [at the quarterback], always zone-dropping, you don't need nearly as much energy [to play that defense].
"You could probably count how much they actually run and compare how much we have to run, and it may be two games to one, in that sense. Not only that, we play a very physical brand of football. We're not meant to be out there very long."
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