What makes this team so special is that guys love football. I know it's a cliché, but guys love football. Guys come over to my house on Thursday nights for team dinners and we watch the football game and we talk about football. There's a genuine love for the game in our locker room.

The biggest difference between the regular season and the playoffs is that it's win or go home. That's the feeling. That's what you go to sleep thinking about: 'If we don't win this game, then we're done.' I hope that resonates with everybody. I know that there are guys on this team who have played at that high level and seen it and how it's supposed to be done, and it falls on us to make it happen.

These opportunities are so few and far between that you have to take advantage of it when you get it. You don't want to look back on it and say, 'I wish I had done better. I wish I had gotten those extra two hours of sleep. I wish that I had worked out to my full capacity. I wish I had gotten treatment.' You don't want to have those feelings. You don't want to have any regrets.