It's a group of guys that put their mind to going out and playing great football. Everybody that needed to step up, stepped up. Everybody that needed to make a play, made a play and that's what it's all about.

If you're willing to put yourself and your dreams on the line, at the very least you'll discover an inner strength you may not have known existed.

I just always felt I'd be playing football in the NFL - or at least playing for a living.

I wish I could say someone taught me my mental toughness, it would have been a lot less painful.

No matter what happens on the football field it doesn't change the kind of person I am.

It's a group of guys that put their mind to going out and playing great football. Everybody that needed to step up, stepped up. Everybody that needed to make a play, made a play and that's what it's all about.

I've done it for a long time and I didn't expect it to be any different here.