My role is to be primarily a lead blocker, and I take a lot of pride in what I do, ... I've been fortunate to lead some great backs in the past and even in the present, so it's just a blessing all around.

About four or five years and 10 or 20 pounds ago I could probably show these young guys a thing or two, ... Now I'm just happy doing what I do as a lead blocker.

I'm definitely excited about it, ... It feels good to be rewarded for your hard work and recognized for it. I'm excited. It gives me more motivation and reason to go out and work even harder.

Our mentality on offense is we want to impose our will whoever we're facing. We were able to do that.

He'll come back and get better, ... Being around him for so long and being the type of person he is, he'll respond. We'll all respond.

We take a lot of pride in earning the number one seed. However, we also realize that means all the other teams will be gunning for us. It is always a little more difficult beating the same team twice in a season. Hopefully we'll be up to the task of defending our title.