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You have to play defense, that's how you win.

It's important for us, if we're going to be a good team, to be a good defensive team in the fourth quarter.

Whatever the offense dictates to allow me doing what I or this offense needs to do to win games, I'm going to do it.

At one time, we were asked to play your own man; you're responsible for your own man. And, if you were good enough and kind of a ball hawk, you helped everyone else. Now it's really much more of a team concept defensively than it was when we played.

My mental approach is totally different. My coach predicated everything on defense. He always talked about defense, defense, defense. I took it to heart that if you play defense, you can take the heart from an offensive player.

I think you always try to put the offense in the best position to make good plays, which usually requires us to move multiple people around and give them an opportunity to impact a game in a lot of different ways.

So I'd rather have a defense that's successful where everyone's comfortable in their positions.

As a football team, we don't have any backups. We don't consider anybody a backup.

Defense is a definite part of the game, and a great part of defense is learning to play it without fouling.

It's always great when a defense is able to create turnovers and score. That's something we missed last year. We'd get some turnovers, but we never scored points.