Getting on track is first priority in Titan Land

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When a reporter asked me about digging out of the current hole that we are in after dropping the last three games and advice veterans can bestow on the young players in situations as such, I could only think of one way to answer: it's not what you say but rather how you approach it and the attitude you have about it. It starts with yourself. If I look in the mirror and can honestly say that I am not doing enough to help this team, then I can't expect the young guys to follow me. I think that all of the veterans feel the same way. We need to go out there and just take care of the little things, do the things we know we are capable of doing and try not to press. A lot of teams make it to the playoffs from a position that we are in and hopefully we will be one of those teams this year.
 
To be one of those teams, we need to get back to what got us off to a good start and that's running the football. The last couple of games have been such where we have gotten behind and gotten away from our game-plan. We are a team that wants to run the ball and has to run the ball to do well and we haven't been able to do that. We've gotten down 14, 21 points the last few weeks and have had to resort to throwing the ball all the time and that presents a whole set of different problems. We have to stay in our groove, stay on the field, convert on third-and-1 and finish our drives by getting into the red zone and putting points on the board. Three points just aren't enough.

There are  a lot of things that can be attributed to our current three game slide; it's turnovers, missed assignments in critical situations, a botched snap, a fumble, being in the wrong place, being in the wrong gap on defense. It's not like it's a mystery, we watch film and we know what the problems are. It's just a matter of correcting them and doing them. You get to a point to where you can't make excuses, you just have to get the job done.

We need to go out there, get a win and get back on track. We have the guys in this locker room to do it.