It was just an outstanding event. They were happy to have us. We felt at home. They had signs up and our pictures. The halftime ceremony was very nice and so was the reception. It couldn't have been a nicer party for our group.

It nice to come back home.

There's nothing like winning a state championship. It's a challenge to do it. The most important thing for us was we played as a team and we worked hard.

The AMBER Alert to me is bittersweet. It's wonderful to bring children home where they belong, but what if we had the AMBER Alert when Amber went missing?

It's just getting that initial third-down situation controlled. I think that will take us a long ways to establishing some momentum early in games. And, obviously, tackling a little better would have helped us on the opening drive (last Sunday).

articulated what the rest of us wanted to say — but couldn't.