The team that is the most focused and executes the best is the team that wins. That's usually the team that can handle the pressure of the situation.

Tim Lewis is great, he's a great coordinator.

Memorizing a playbook is like memorizing a script. When they change the script at the last minute it's like changing a play in a game.

We're sympathetic, but once you step on the field, football's football.

At the same time, it makes me feel like I have to prove myself to the new guys coming in as well as prove myself to the coaching staff, which is a good bit of motivation for me.

My ultimate goal is for that next generation coming up, who didn't see me play, go, 'Oh, he used to play football?'

I think this can be a championship team. But we do have to take it one game at a time. You can't look at the end of the road before you get the next foot in.