We need Coach back, he's our leader. There's definitely a difference when he's on the field. You can't fill those shoes. Five championships, 100-some wins. I hope I can be in that many games.

We can do some things with him on the goal line, run the toss and things like that because he's pretty quick where Muhammad is more of an inside banger type of guy.

He was one of our free agent guys we targeted. It was just more of us getting used to him and him getting used to us. It's a different system. We've only been together three weeks. Obviously, he's catching on and we're catching on.

I don't think it's changed our preparation or anything like that. Obviously, you want your leader around, but we've got to go and our guys understand that, and I'm sure they'll be up for the challenge.

We were like a wounded animal up there. They had us backed in a corner, and sometimes that's dangerous. The guys took it on, and we've got great veteran leadership. You let those guys take over.

The safety was big because that turns it into a two possession game. Grand Rapids pushed some buttons early on and got us fired up with some of their quotes and some things they do off the field and it may come back to haunt them.