Patrick Mannelly

Well, the heat is now turned up in the playoffs.

And he wants to be great.

He talks about he wakes up being great or wanting to be great.

Well, let's go.

And I think the young man can do that.

And I think that's one thing we might have on our side now is a quarterback who can embrace these situations and games like this and play his best.

I think it's the biggest thing.

It'll be on the coaches.

The players, you know the player.

You know the guy across from you.

You watch enough tape of, you know, Zach Tom versus Montez.

He knows enough about Montez Sweat.

Montez Sweat knows enough about Zach Tom.

Everybody you've gone across from, you know how they play, how their hand placement is, their footwork, all that kind of stuff.

Now it's the chess match between Ben Johnson and Halfley and LaFleur and Dennis Allen and Basaccia and Hightower.

It's going to be what they come up with, what kind of wrinkle can they throw in there, what have they seen maybe in two games that they can exploit, what have they held back.

And like what you said, what has Ben Johnson held back?

He talked about running a simple game plan, and we talked about it in the postgame,

Or were they maybe ahead of themselves in a good way of saying, okay, we are going to go vanilla like you do in a preseason and then bring all this other stuff out in the postseason that could be some wrinkles that we haven't shown before that will show like a basic alignment.

He likes to make certain things look the same and same things look different, however that goes.