Russ Dorsey

And he said, honestly, that provides a hunger and incentive for us to want to go host more home playoff games.

The guys that were a part of that understand what that felt like, understand what the advantage of that was.

And so you want to have that as part of your regular winter routine going forward.

And so, yeah, you understand where this fan base is.

They're revved up.

They believe they've got an answer at quarterback.

They believe they've got the answer at head coach.

They believe this team is

is ready to open a window to enjoy football in the fall and in the winter for eight or ten years.

And so it's a fun place to be, and it requires a lot of hard work, obviously, as Ben has made very apparent here, that you're going to have to put in the work in order to achieve those things.

You just made me realize how happy I am for Colt Comet because it was two years ago where it was like,

He was like, man, guys, I've seen a lot of things.

We couldn't even get him to say that the weirdest things that occurred were in that last year of Matt Iberflues, Dan, because he's seen bad things in his time here.

Well, Grody said it again today that obviously he's been part of more bad teams than good teams, and so he doesn't need sort of this reminder of like, hey, Cole, you've got to work hard in order to achieve that.

Cole knows what goes into it.

just creating one good season, much less two in a row.

And so he's going to be, I think, a guy inside that locker room that can vocalize that and live it, really, on an everyday basis so that everybody else follows.

It's interesting that you bring that up specifically because it always takes me back to my favorite Jalen Johnson comment.

back when they were overseas playing and they had such a big lead that he could actually rest at the end of a game as opposed to being in the game hoping to fight for whatever.

I'm so curious as to where Jalen Johnson is now compared to when he tried to make a comeback.