More than anything, we got a little swagger back up front. I think everybody can count on us and believe in us more. You're only as good as your last performance and we capped it off with 10 wins.
He came in last spring and got all the reps and did a fine job. He's a guy who's going to make all the right decisions. The times he came in last year, he did a great job. We have all the confidence in the world in him.
We've got to step up. It's our time, it's our football team now. We have to get everybody going in the right direction, doing the right things on and off the field.
I wish I could've seen that guy on the bull.
I think since we've been practicing and gotten over the Auburn game and put that behind us, we've gotten a little swagger and some more confidence in ourselves. We're playing against the best defense in the country every day in practice.
When John Parker came into the game, he made plays. He made things happen. It gave him confidence, and it gives us confidence in him.
We see some things on film that we can attack. We just have to go out and do it.
You give a lot of credit to our coaches because they had a great game plan. We just wanted to put it down their throats, and that's what we did.
There was no doubt in my mind we were going to move the football down there. It was just a matter of whether we would kick a field goal or score a touchdown. It seemed like we were playing in early-season form.
It was probably one of the first times we saw the bad side of him. That's behind us. That's two years ago, but I think that's something we need to keep in our minds because you know how it can slip away from you at any time in the SEC.
If you look at our production in the last couple of games, we definitely haven't been the Alabama offense that we want to be.
He showed us in the bowl game the production we can get out of him. There was great communication up front, identifying the (opposing) fronts. He was letting us know everything that was going on. It worked out for the best. I don't see any reason why we wouldn't leave him there.
All of the focus is on us up front.