THE WAY I FEEL WHEN I LACE MY CLETES. PUT ON MY ARMOR, AND STRAP MY HELMET IS IMMORTALILTY. I KNOW I AM NOT A SUPERIOR ATHLETE, IF I WAS I WOULD BE SOME WHERE GETTING PAID. BUT THE WAY I FEEL WHEN I PUT MY HAND DOWN AND WAIT FOR THE CADENCE IS THAT NO MATTER WHAT I FACE I AM STRONGER, BIGGER, AND BETTER THAN THE OTHER MAN. I WILL NEVER MISS A BLOCK, LET A MAN PASS ME AND GET TO MY GENERAL. I WILL NEVER LOSE. THAT IS THE WAY I FEEL. A FAMILY IS SUPPOSE TO LIFT ONE ANOTHER UP. RATHER ITS PHYSICALLY OR MENTALLY. A FAMILY IS SUPPOSE TO BE POSITIVE NO MATTER THE SITUATION. POSITIVE CRITISM IS THE ONLY CRITISM. YOU NEVER PUT DOWN A FAMILY MEMBER. YOU ALWAYS LIFT THEM UP. WHEN A FAMILY MEMBER DOES SOMETHING WRONG YOU TELL THAT FAMILY MEMBER HOW TO FIX IT AND MAKE IT BIGGER, BETTER, STRONGER. FOR ME MY DIRECT FAMILY IS THE OLINE AND MY QUATERBACK. THE OLINE ARE MY BROTHERS, MY FELLOW SOLDIERS WHILE THE QUARTERBACK IS MY FATHER, MY GENERAL, MY LEADER. I WILL DO EVERYTHING AND ANYTHING TO PROTECT HIM. AS FOR MY COACHES THEY ARE MY SPIRITUAL GODS. THEY GIVE ME DIRECTION TO THE LIGHT, THE PROMISE LAND. THEY ARE THE REASON I WORSHIP.

THIS IS THE WAY I TRULY FEEL ABOUT FOOTBALL. SO WHEN SOMEONE PUTS DOWN ONE OF MY DIRECT FAMILY MEMBERS I WILL FIGHT BACK. WHEN MY GOD OR MY FATHER PUTS ME DOWN, GOES BEHIND MY BACK. I AM DEEPLY HURT, I DO TAKE IT TO HEART. THIS IS THE WAY I GREW UP PLAYING FOOTBALL, NO THE WAY I GREW UP LIVING. NOTHING WILL EVERCHANGE THAT.

THE ONLY CRITISM I KNOW IS POSITIVE CRITISM.

I AM WRITING THIS TO LET EVERYONE KNOW HOW I FEEL ABOUT THIS GAME. YOU MIGHT THINK THAT I AM PUTTING TO MUCH INTO THIS BUT I AM TRULY IN LOVE WITH THIS GAME. EVERYTHING ABOUT IT. I WILL BE OUT THERE TO PLAY SATURDAY. I JUST HOPE YOU CAN READ THIS AND FIND SOMETHING POSITIVE FROM IT.

AS FOR THE REST OF THE TEAM YOU ARE MY FAMILY TOO AND I DO HAVE YOUR BACK. BUT YOUR MORE LIKE A COUSIN. HAD TO THROW A SOMETHING IN THERE TO MAKE YOU SMILE

THIS IS THE GODS HONEST TRUTH ABOUT THE WAY I FEEL