It took something out of us. I know a 21-3 lead can be erased pretty quickly if your offense executes properly. Ours didn't. Nothing was the same after that.

Two-out hits are pretty clutch, ... You have to find a way to come through in those situations.

Any way you can get it done. We have to find ways to win; it may not be pretty at times, but the bottom line is wins and losses.

He's the catalyst of our offense.

I ran this [West Coast] offense for three years at Carolina, so the verbiage came pretty quick. A few teams called Sunday, but this deal was definitely something I was interested in. There's a lot of good players here that are going to be a good team, so it was an easy decision.

That's a dream start, you know. I think we worked out their game plan pretty quickly and exploited it. Everything came off.