Sean Payton

We've got a great group of guys, and they continue to, again, believe in the things that we did, and they formed and created an identity.

This is probably one of the closer teams that I've coached.

Smart, accurate, great human being, worked hard.

Great teammate.

You know, just hadn't had an opportunity.

Yeah, so getting back to your Sam Darnold comment and Jets fans, I am a Jets fan for 40 years, and I am rooting for Sam Darnold because I hate the Jets so freaking much.

you know, great human being, you know, worked hard, great teammate.

You know, just hadn't had an opportunity.

So that was the biggest accomplishment.

No, but for real, Indiana's been predominantly a basketball, and football's been in purgatory for the longest time.

And our team, with Coach Cignetti and a whole bunch of under-recruited guys, guys who have already been down their entire lives, now finally marked as national champions, it means the world to all of us.

It's a running play, and I'm a quarterback.

I'm a passer.

So at first, I'm like, okay, here we go.

And I'm supposed to run left.

We've had a couple conversations.

We speak regularly, so the topics might vary.

Obviously, that topic came up, and then there were other things that we discussed.

This is a team at the line of scrimmage that does a lot.

Josh is fantastic at putting together good plans offensively.