"I’d say this: When you’re sitting there and everyone else is picking everybody else, it gets you kind of fired up. Obviously, today that’s worn off. But last night when I’m watching, I’m going, ‘Oh, really, is that really what you think?’ Then you think about standing up on the victory stand at the end of the year MF-ing everybody about picking other people.

That is a bit of a motivator, always being the underdog. We’ve had a lot of guys — as every team does — have chips on their shoulder, like I do and I always will have. Because you just know that this game comes and it goes. We’ve sustained something pretty special over the years. But also, we’ve found ways to re-invent ourselves when we’ve needed to. Hopefully this year we’ve really done that. It remains to be seen. I think we have a lot of guys on the team who are hungry. We have some young players, We’ve got a good mix of some veteran players. We’ll just see how consistent we can be. That’s going to be what determines the fate of our season. I know we can make a lot of good plays. We’ve just got to be able to do it consistently."