I came in and was myself. Joe thought that was good enough.

We looked around at college football teams who had a similar-style quarterback that we thought Michael could be.

Joe did a miraculous job keeping that squad from not splitting offensively and defensively.

He had a very good spring for us. He didn't play in the spring game, so no one knew about him. He hurt his ankle right before the game.

If it goes the other way, you don't know what happens. Say we lose that football game. We don't get the confidence that we have now ? that we can go get that done when it's called for offensively.

He stepped in the huddle and people believed in him.