You always want the ball in your hands, but you have to support the decision that is best for the team.

If he doesn't see all the effort he wants, we'll stop practice at any time and do up-downs. In one of our last practices, we weren't going hard enough. So we ended up doing up-downs for the rest of practice, which was good because it was what we needed to do.

Even though we may have lost a few games, we felt like in our eyes we could play with anybody in the Big 12.

They were pushing the line back to where it affected my vision, and we weren't protecting like we needed to.