Over your career, what makes a team better at not turning the ball over as the season goes along? What kind of things you need to emphasize? How much of it is coaching? How much of it is a mental part? Physical part?
Confidence in your scheme goes a long way to producing turnover-free football. Having had an awful season in year 2, a lot of our interceptions came from trying to do too much and not trusting my play calls. I also had a penchant for deciding where I wanted to go with the ball before even snapping it. That led to bad play calls, bad decisions, and repetitive, predictable, offensive gameplans.
Can you describe kind of the energy or the mood and the vibe in the building now coming in the home stretch?
The mood in the building is "our job is not finished". No matter how the regular season ends (we have clinched a playoff berth), we know that the value of our season is determined by how we fare in the playoffs. We want to be playing our best ball heading into it, and we have won 11 consecutive games. It's time for us to put up or shut up and treat every game like it's win or go home.
When the schedules were released this past offseason, analysts said you had one of the easier schedules they've seen. Do you see it that way as well?
We can only play who's on our schedule every season. We don't really get into the comparison game because everyone in this league can win a game on any given day. All we're concerned about is making sure we play our best football each week, and for some reason, if we are unable to, we want to grow from each experience and use it to get better.
