Wilfork enjoying another standout season

Wilfork enjoying another standout season
December 20, 2012, 7:29 pm
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FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) His numbers don't leap off the page. They never do.



``I could care less about stats,'' Wilfork said earlier in the year. ``The only stat I care about is the W. We win, and I'm happy. We lose, and I'm not.''


After back-to-back games against two of the top teams in the league - the first a possible AFC championship preview against the Houston Texans and last week's showdown a potential Super Bowl matchup - New England travels to Jacksonville to face the struggling Jaguars.



``A lot of people might look at their record, but you can just tell, they just line up and they play football. They're old school,'' Wilfork said. ``They line up and they try to do things right and you can just tell, when they do the things right, they move the ball, they make plays.

``It's going to be challenging for us.''

Attempting to block Wilfork is always a tall order.


``Going up against (a guy) like that, you've got to play your best football. He's a tough player to defend,'' McDonald said. ``He's a great football player. He's a good leader. He's a guy that's been around the system for a long time and he does a lot of things well.

``He's a hell of a football player.''





``He's a unique player,'' McDonald said.




``The athletic ability he has and the size he has is very rare, and just his passion for the game,'' McDonald marveled. ``Guys that have been around the league a long time like that and still have amazing passion and work as hard as he does, he's going to be successful.''

The offensive line also is benefiting from his presence.

``Going up against a guy like that . that rare athletic ability and size, the power he has, the quickness, it's definitely going to make you better,'' McDonald said. ``He's going to make everybody around him better, too.''


``That's one of the things that we do. That's one of our goals. That's one of the things that we work very hard toward. And it's paying off for us this year,'' Wilfork said. ``Hopefully we can continue to get our offense the ball. There's no other offense I would want to get the ball than inside (quarterback Tom Brady's) hands. The more we get our offense the opportunity with the ball, the better we'll be as a team, and we understand that.

``Our goal is to go out and create negative plays and create turnovers and give our offense the ball back.''

