On Steve Sarkisian in general and the success he is having: "Yeah. People are always going to have opinions regardless. Good or bad. 'Oh, he's doing okay'. That's what they're going to say. But for us in-house, we always try to keep things in-house. We always believed in Sark and we're going to continue to believe in him."

On the secret of flipping the perception on Steve Sarkisian: "Like I said for us, we always believed in him. We just kept working together. The longer you do things the better you understand each other, that's all it was. For us, at the beginning, we weren't helping him out. Some guys were doing this and some guys were doing that and others were off here and there. If we don't have success but we have the talent then it's the offensive coordinator. For him, it was more so us too. You can't blame one without the other."

On the questions concerning Steve Sarkisian last year – was there one that was specifically unfair: "I can't recall but for me coming off the great season that we had before and he came in it was more like why aren't you all scoring, why are you doing this and why are you doing that. He's in a new position, he had a new group, a new crew to feel us out and call plays. He just can't' go out there and play Madden like okay, call this, call this. Football is a rhythm thing and you've got to get your players to go out there and play with you, and you're going to feel confident."

On whether there is a different sense in the locker room right now considering they're back at .500: "I don't think it's the locker room. The feel is more at practice. Everybody wants to get better, everybody wants to give each other a look. That's when we games, is at practice. Before we get to the locker room, that's where I see the biggest difference."

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