It's actually rare for us to be preparing for a game at all. It's definitely a plus to be preparing for a home game.

Our run defense has been great all year. Nobody has been able to run the ball on us, and we don't feel that anybody can.

Maybe it'll be a good thing. Maybe we just need to get out of here and just say it's us or nothing.

I think that's what coach Walker did when he got here was to make us believe that we're always the underdog. And we've been the underdog a lot. But as far as losing, that doesn't help at all. We need to turn the corner. We need to have a snowball effect with winning, not the other way around.

The coaches have stressed that stat to us, but I've never played a minute down there. We've got to approach this game like we do any other game against an opponent that has been traditionally tough at home like Miami.

We have a mechanism in place to do what a union claims it can do for us.