‘"I worked tremendously long and hard, and I had a lot of help along the way – Marv Levy and Bill Polian, guys like Jim, Thurman, Andre, Kent, Darryl (Talley) and Steve Tasker," Smith said. "If it wasn’t for our offense putting up the number of points they put up, other teams wouldn’t have had to pass as much as they did. For about four years I think we scored more points than anybody else in the NFL. That definitely was a factor getting to the quarterback."’