It's a great challenge for us. We need to be able to exploit their weaknesses, if they do have them.

It puts us on par with much larger communities. It moves us to a different level.

It's been a huge challenge for us to explain where we are when the landscape keeps changing.

Part of the challenge for us is the diversity of the culture and languages in California. It's big and you really have to reach people in their comfort zones.

That's because this really wasn't good enough. We've got a high standard here. They scored on us in both halves. We don't want to give up anything ? no points, no yards, we'd like to see negative yards. Until we do that, we're only average.

They put us in a whole bunch of tough spots. We had to react both physically and mentally. We had to somehow stop them when it mattered the most.