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It's a dangerous, violent game. When you're down there in the field. In the trenches. You have to hang in that pocket and look down the gun barrel. You have to have the weapons. Shotgun? Great protection.

Aaron Rodgers has so many weapons. As many options as Baskin Robbins has flavors. A 50 mile per hour bullet. A launch window lasting roughly two tenths of a second — a margin of error literally faster than the blink of an eye. All you need to do is give a playmaker an opportunity for a fraction of a second. Green Bay is a pretty explosive team.

Dallas has a lot of weapons. Your ability to generate offense and design offense off of those kind of things...it's so much easier.

You see other teams breaking down mentally. I remember it real well. A fight between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Baltimore Ravens. A game for men. Into town comes the Pittsburgh Steeler defense. The most violent linebackers in football. Playmakers all over the place, and they know what to do.

But the Baltimore Ravens won the battle. Ray Rice, dynamite running back — he's literally the catalyst for this Ravens offense. The Steelers could not handle any of it. They looked long in the tooth. There's nothing pretty about the Ravens way. Even the Ravens will admit that.

But, you can't live in the past. You live in the past, you die in the past. You've got to put in the work and come together as a team. Think about the Giants. They had to beat the Jets, Dallas, Atlanta, Green Bay, and San Francisco (talk about the playmakers they have up front). And now they are going to the Super Bowl. That offense is so explosive. You have so many weapons. Eli Manning, at the controls of another combat.

When you're surrounded by experienced players and veteran players who know how to win, then that's something that's contagious. You have to step up and play big. You have to command the huddle.

Tom Brady sets himself apart from any other player that's on the Patriots team. Well-coached, explosive, and can score from literally anywhere on the field. And, yes, Tom Brady had a lot of weapons. 99-yd bomb. In the red zone. He was a horror show.

You have to find a way to be a hero. If you don't pull the trigger, you're going to be average. No one wants to be average.

A lot of times football is a grind, and some days are harder than others, and you may not have a good day mentally. It's tough on everyone. At some point you got to look yourself in the mirror and ask yourself, you know, what can you do to make it better?

This might be the last stand for the non Tebow believers. Reading from the book of Tebow, Chapter 7, Verse 2: thou faith shall be increased abundantly if you believe in Timmy. Tim Tebow has those intangibles, that positive spirit.

Tebow, a miracle maker. Tebow of the Tebows. Tim Tebow's story eclipses sports. It's Tebow time. Tebow, Tebow, Tebow.