ESPN is involved with a lot of home-and-home situations with teams. That didn't happen for us this year.

Our depth and comfort at home were definitely big pluses for us. But there are still a lot of things for us to work on. (Union Local) scored 28 points in the second half, and they didn't have to work to hard for a lot of them.

It was very disappointing. We were riding a high after beating the Colts in their home place.

This is a fairly new golf course and is very exclusive. It helps to open the season closer to home since the environment is similar to what we are use to. The field is a strong field and will give us a good test of where we stand.

Road or home, it becomes this simple: Our defense isn't even close to where it needs to be. We've tried to address that in ways, tried to change it, but it eventually comes down to you being able to take care of your man, and we've struggled with that too long. We've got to shore up our defense.

It's hard to guard it all when we have it going like that.