Knowing the way he throws can help us. But it is a different team, a different offense now.

That's a stat that can help you win games, so you know the coaches will harp on it so much. But I think the guys responded in the preseason.

The team is starting to gel. Everyone is doing their part, except the free throws.

When you look at why this team is 9-0, I don't think it's necessarily because the offense is that much better than it was last year, but I do believe the defense and special teams are better.

A few times we lost the momentum again, with penalties. This is a team with a lot of offense up front and they're really going to capitalize on our mistakes. They did that early in the game, but we stuck with the game plan, came back and got some goals, and then at the end we got the bounces. They weren't pretty goals but we'll take them and get the first win.

Both teams were patient on offense, but we definitely stressed at halftime that we had to pick up our game. Our defense came through and won this one for us.