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Well, I hope it's a Mike McDonald show featuring a very happy Mike McDonald this morning. What a night. What an incredible, incredible night.

It was. Wow. I can't say any better myself. So you go home, you fall right to sleep after that? Like a baby. You have a baby, so you know that that means you didn't fall to sleep. No, we have a bunch of people in town for the game, and so many of whom I didn't know were going to be there. So it's like, mom's here okay oh like so-and-so's here this is great and like oh you didn't know that was coming i was like no i kind of blacked out during the week but uh so we hung out there at the stadium for a while and then eventually got to bed and it's hard to you know sometimes you wake up and you're like super fired up because you won then you're like oh we gave up that play and then you're mad about this call and then you go oh we've still won so that's good then you're sleeping and then you still dream something that didn't happen yeah that's funny i was going to ask you a family and friends because the holidays are coming up if you had more people at this game and if so what were their takeaways last night what were

they saying every every well we have one i don't know we have people in and out every game

which is awesome and uh haley and company just do a great job organizing it so i don't have to deal

with it but um she pretty much does everything i don't know what i do. But everyone was stoked. It was just like, it was a great environment, you know. Had they been in environments like that, I wonder? Like, even for me, I've been in a lot of places. But last night, I don't know if it was the watches. I don't know if it was the drones. I don't know if it was the scene. I don't know if it was the uniforms. I don't if it's the uniforms. I don't know if it was everything. Yeah. I don't I've never been a part of that before. I mean, I was on, I mean, you just normally normally just full story. I'm not really thinking about the environment or you're just kind of thinking about what we have to do, but there are multiple times throughout the game. I was like, man, This is incredible. You know, pregame, even when, you know, we're facing, you know, death at our doorstep there in the fourth quarter, like, we got a couple. We've got to stop. We're kicking it off. And I actually said in the headset, I was like, man, guys, like, this is freaking awesome. Like, you know, you got to love this. and yeah so it was just some incredible atmosphere.

As the defense was coming up with a few of those big stops during the comeback, what was that environment like in the building and then maybe even on the sidelines?

Well, it's definitely, it started with a punt return, you know, and then you could feel the, you know, the 12s kind of get back, back rolling and the energy

and then our guys, our guys needed a little pick-me-up, and then they got it, and then we kind of

just got rolling at that point, you know, and so, you know, we talk about 12-1, and it really

is 12-1. It's like, it's us and 12's all working together and and uh like

we said before the game like this is the that's the vision we want to have you know this is what we want

this is what we've been trying to make come to life uh this whole time you know we got to keep it

going i'm sure every single person on the field and the coaching staff and everyone is a big part of that.

Watching it from on TV, it sure looked like the two veterans, to Marcus Lawrence and Leo, were a huge part of that.

What kind of a role did those two guys play physically and maybe even mentally spiritually?

Yeah.

Well, you know, it was a really mentally or emotionally charged game.

And it wasn't really going our way defensively for a large part of the game.

And so, you need guys like that to keep your poise and to keep your edge, you know,

and have that like that balance, you know, and kind of show the that, hey, like, let's stay the course, keep playing, keep making the adjustments. Like, it's going to, you know, the tide's going to shift at some point for us, you know, and, uh, and they're a big driving force behind that. We talk about these different moments, Mike, and is play caller versus play caller, right?

And I know you were asked about McVeigh and we'll always be asked about McVe as two young whippersnappers and all the stuff that you guys do.

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