I thought our whole defense was average at best at every position. There were some guys I thought played really well, but I'm not going to name any names.

It would be different if I was stepping into a place where they'd been terrible on defense and had a whole bunch of turnover within the staff. But the three coaches back are good football coaches and nucleus of our defense is back. I'm just going to go out there and try not to mess it up too bad.

I've always been on the field. The guys I grew up under always did it. The guys who taught me what I know were on-the-field guys. That's my background. I don't know the other way. I guess everybody here has been upstairs.

He's continued to get better and better and better. Different guys are going to play out there. Whoever's No. 1, whatever that means, there'll be more than one guy out there.

This was the best game we've played all year. The guys understood this was a good Holmes team. Now, this team is looking forward to going to play at Northwest. They know it's a challenge, and they look forward to it. But we know we have to take it one game at a time.

I thought our defense was the key. We put a lot of pressure on them and had active hands. We were able to capitalize on the turnovers.