We've got a couple of plays we really like. It's funny, there's a couple of plays that we really like. I wouldn't be worried too much about that because we've got a lot of stuff. "Gosh, if we have a game where we let it all out this first game it will be pretty good. I'm always excited for the regular season and seeing these guys play." When you get a play you work on in practice and you see it work, you say, 'Gosh, I wonder if this is going to work in the game.' You get the look you want and it happens and you're just like, 'Holy cow.' It's exciting to see how juiced they get and that's a big part of the fun as a coach for me, for us to see that. I think the big thing is when you design plays and players know that there's a chance it's coming to them - all of the guys - how you spread the ball around, they get excited. You're always excited to see if they work. We didn't show them necessarily in the preseason game some of the things we're excited about. "That puts a lot of pressure on me because if we come out there don't do well, you're going to say, 'Okay, great this stuff they were working on sucked.' You know what it's exciting because some of the things - you know we do work on some things when we're going against Gus, but now we're playing a different style of defense. It will be fun to see if he gets the opportunity to make some plays, what he does with that Sunday." A lot of times in this league, when you have that confidence or when you have that build of repetitions where you're working together, it makes it a little bit easier. I think a big thing is getting some reps with the quarterback. You're excited to see it, but once again we haven't seen him play in this role where he's going to be play a little bit more and put him in situations where he can potentially make some plays. This year in OTAs had a little setback early, but then in camp he really picked it up. He just never seemed like he got up to who he thought he was going to be. Didn't get going really until - what - six games into the season and then he got hurt and missed a little bit more. It's the first game that he's the Mike Williams we've seen in preseason camp. "Yeah, you know, you always have what do you expect from them in the first game. I'm superstitious about that stuff, but we feel good that consciousness of it, being aware of it and working on it - we work on drills in practice to make sure our ball security is good will help us." I hope I don't jinx it by talking about it. We've certainly had that message this week. So hopefully I think that our guys understand now the importance of it. Other than the Kansas City games, especially from our perspective, it was pretty decent. Coach Lynn came in and said that's something that was important to him, not that it wasn't important to Coach McCoy or coaches before, but we had an emphasis on it. I think really a big part of it was the focus. Last year, if you think about it, we were in some of the games, not all of them, but in some of the games we were in better situations, especially later in the year. In the past, in some of those games - some of the ones where we had a number of interceptions - we were behind in trying to catch up and teams were in situations where they could make some of those plays. "Quite frankly, I think some of it was game situations.
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