I think everyone needs to win their one-on-ones. When you look at film, there were so many games where just one breakdown cost us the game. ... We need to die hard, work hard on every play and not go down.

We are working on winning the one-on-one battles. We lost several games last year, where if we just made one more play we would have pulled out a win.

Just watching film and the couple of games I've seen him this year, he's a fun player. He flies around. I'm not a strong safety, but if I did play that position, that's the way I would want to play. Running around, flying around, just doing some crazy stuff and making plays.

It's hard because the kids get jumpy. We're not used to a close-game situation. Our games this year have been either one way or the other. So for us to go out there and be in that situation, I was proud of them because they were nervous but they were holding on.

We (defense) did great; it was a lot of fun. We pretty much dominated the offense today.

Last year was like a different language. This year we all knew what we were doing.