The scheme's got to fit your players. My thing is bashing running backs. That's what I want to get back to, just having fun and letting them deal with me. That's what the 46 package and the defense does.

A linebacker's job is to knock out running backs, to knock out receivers, to chase the football,

There's nothing I'm doing to my body that a regular person is not doing to theirs outside of just running into somebody at full speed.

Blocking, to me now, is just as good as making a catch and scoring a touchdown or running a guy over.

Blocking to me now is just as good as making a catch and running a guy over and scoring a touchdown. After my sophomore year, I got a different tight ends coach and he really just made me realize that if I wanted to be anywhere, I would have to put my face in someone's helmet.

We are day by day. We have no water running!