I think each of the remaining games that we have are games that our kids -- and we're going to sell them on this -- that they should expect to win.

We're made on being able to run the football, and until we can control the line of scrimmage, that's going to be difficult for us to do. We have a lot of strides to make there.

Absolutely and I don't think we've overcome that yet. It's a lot about raising the bar, increasing your expectations of yourself, to see yourself as a winner. And part of that comes from earning the respect of others through hard work.

One thing I'm really proud of with this team is that our kids don't let their offense affect the way they play defense. Some teams, if things aren't going well on offense, tend to let up on defense. But we don't, and you could see that today.

We'd like to win these two games, but the conference games on Saturday and Sunday are more important for us.

It feels great. I give all the credit to the kids and the coaching staff. We worked so hard in practice.