The crowd helps you a lot, especially our defense. It helps them get off the snap a lot quicker, it makes the offense slower coming off the snap count. That just turns into sacks, fumbles, penalties, turnovers - all kinds of things. So it's really big.

The game helped us to put what happened out of our minds a little bit. He wanted us to come out and play. It was tough for all of us. We wanted to come out and play well, and we didn't play as well as we liked.

You could hear a pin drop. He didn't talk long, three, four minutes, and that was it. But he said some really nice things.

How he works, in practice every day, is what sets him apart. When I got here what I noticed was how hard him and Peyton work together. It's not by accident what they do on the football field on Sundays.

I don't think they've been in our heads. They've played better than us, and that's the bottom line.

I don't think there is. I think we're going to go out there and play football like we know how. That's what he wants us to do, to go out there and play, not necessarily for him, but to win the game.

He said some nice things. I think it uplifted everybody's spirits.

They kept us in the game early when we had a hard time getting in the end zone. They played great and we knew they would.

Then, it was just a normal game. We knew that was the way it was going to be.

It's going to be a lot different next year; it always is. Every year's a big turnaround. Great group of guys in this locker room, and you know some of them aren't going to be here next year, and that's just the NFL.