Sometimes I had to take the backseat to older players, but if he was going the wrong way I wasn't going to follow him. That's just my personality. I'm probably known more than any guy on this team because I can talk to anybody. I don't feel like I'm better than anybody. A captain has to walk the straight and narrow.
Captains are more accountable.
Last year we had six captains and one of them had a problem. That was very upsetting to me for a lot of reasons, but the main reason was because he was a captain. Fulmer was alluding to cornerback co-captain Dwayne Goodrich, who was arrested for arguing with a store clerk over some chicken wings. Fulmer suspended Goodrich for the next game. A captain has to be able to empathize with his teammates.