Brotherhood is found thru our struggles...

Yardbarkers,

First off, I would like to apologize for missing last week, we had a lot going on with the team, so I was all over the place...Don't think I forgot about you though...It's good to be back.

My message to the team this week is Brotherhood is found thru our struggles, But now we have overcame, it is our time. Take it upon yourself to be better everyday. It was really just talking about adversity. We've been through adversity, dealing with all these injuries, all the ups and downs, and my message is very simple: that stuff pulls champions together. When you go through things like that and you have to fight through it. Once you learn how to deal with those things and you know how to fit people in like 'next man up', the next thing to do is keep moving.

Now it's time for us to grab momentum because the scariest thing ever is when you add confidence and camaraderie with talent. And that's one thing that we have and probably makes us one of the best in the business right now. When you add that together, we'll get on the right road. That's pretty much what my message was about. 5-2 going into the bye is the only thing that matters.



Last week we played well as a defense. I think every year it just shows what our identity is. At the beginning of the year we get all our kinks out very early, and then as the year progresses we get more and more dominant. I think last week really showed, as a team, defensively once we get up on anybody it's going to be hard for teams in this league to just try and come back on us. So I think last week was a big win to getting back to what our true identity is, which is running the football and doing the things we're supposed to be doing and playing hard-nosed defense.