Me too. That game was like watching a train wreck – over and over again, on every play. We did not look like a professional football team, and, sadly, that’s not hyperbole.

What has knots in my tummy right now is not so much our football ability to “hang in there” with the Patriots, but our psychological ability. Apart from all of the purely tactical and strategic details Schiano must imbue, his hardest task by far is to get these guys believing that they belong on the same field as excellence. I simply want to see ferocity, fight, guts – in short, fearlessness.

That was the thing last year against the Pats. We looked, quite literally, scared stiff.