We just kept grinding. We ran the ball a lot. You can only do that when you're blocking well.

That's the Midwestern philosophy of football. We're just a team from down south that is doing it.

We were called out and we stepped up pretty well. We don't care about being rookies. We just want to play.

What rookies expect to start? I mean, the first pick of the draft may start. It's just turned out to be a great fit for me.

Maybe we're just too dumb to know we shouldn't be doing this. And we really don't care.

Anyone who worked with Michael knows what a great room-jarring laugh he had. He was your best audience for anything remotely funny.