The ball blinks, and it's hard to see. It's like staring at a strobe light.

The Steelers are who they are. They like to pound the ball. It's going to be hard for them to change much at this point.

It was them getting the ball to Davenport. We couldn't stop her.

by staring at light bulbs during games. The light contracted his pupils, making his reactions harder to read.

Let me assure you, the struggle is real.

I clicked my tongue, ready to fire back a snarky comment about Captain Obvious, but the titanic clash of emotions in those emerald eyes rendered me speechless.

Guarded yet exposed. Challenging yet submissive. Unwilling to bend yet impossibly vulnerable.

“You’re allowed to stare,” his jaw twitched, “so long as you promise to break the golden rule.”

“What golden rule?”

“Look but don’t touch.

They were a really tough team and went after the ball hard, but we could have boxed them out better. We could have gone after the ball harder. It was stuff that we could have controlled that we didn't.