It is helping some, ... Ego says you want to be out there playing the whole game, but reality is you can't play your best in the fourth quarter when you're exhausted basically.

It's like anyone, ... If you have a death in the family or the kids are sick or whatever, you're going to be a little down, you're not going to seem like your old self. Once we all found out what it was, we kind of understood and said, 'Hey, let's just focus in and do our jobs and try to take some of the pressure off.' .

It could be motivation for them, everyone is counting them out, nobody thinks they can do it. They're trying to prove people wrong. But that's not our problem. We're trying to get ourselves together. They'll take care of their house, we'll try to take care of ours.

Everybody's going to play, and I think the results were that guys were fresh in the fourth quarter when we needed to make plays. A lot of guys made them across the board.

It's coming from a lot of different guys, too.

A lot of big plays from a lot of different guys. I think we answered the bell. It was a big game. We have some momentum going into the bye.

It will be fun to have family, my parents, friends, my old high school coach ... all those people actually watching you play in person, it will be a fun atmosphere.

I don't look at it and say, 'Boy, this is going to be a tough, four-game stretch' or 'Ooh, we've got three of the next four at home,' ... But once you're into it, like we are now, boy, we've got a tough three-game stretch, and we've got two of three at home. Now, when I'm in the meat of it, I notice stuff like that.