We needed this, it's a rite of passage game, ... When you get through a game like this, it shows you what you're about and shows you where you're trying to go. ... At certain points, this is a journey. And it was a hell of a journey today.
If we understand this is probably going to be one of the hardest games of our lives, we'll be OK.
We've won the tight games and before we didn't. Before we were receiving the brunt of the bad things that would happen. You see what happens at the end of the games now. At the tight part of the game we're stepping up and playing through it.
It's going to be a showing of what we are all about and what were trying to get accomplished for the whole year. As a whole, this game is appropriate for so many reasons.
A lot of guys see the complexity of the game; I see the simplicity.
I approach football like a street-ball game, like I'm playing with the fellas in the yard.
From week to week, game to game, it doesn't matter if a team is 3-12 or 12-3 or undefeated. They're going to always play you hard. When our games come around, it's a playoff atmosphere.