Excuses are tools of the incompetent
There's going to be some joyful lifting for us if you will in terms of some of the tasks we have to do.
More grounded, more humble, more selfless makes us more opportunistic.
I'll tolerate you until I can replace you.
If our team doesn't face enough adversity early on in a season, I create it. Nothing builds a team like adversity.
I'm not concerned about avoiding anything that happened three years ago or worried about letdowns or things of that nature. When you use the term 'letdown' you proceed with the assumption that this is a continuation of something that happened in the past.