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One funny thing about playing this game

Everything about this game feels natural and easy for me so far.  The one thing that I was thinking about the other day was the fact that we're all trying to have  a good time while at the same time trying to bust our butts so coach knows he can count on us during the game. If there's one thing I remember from playing ball at ND was, the coaches HAVE TO know they can count on you to do your job once the balls snapped.  So i've seen it all over certain peoples faces (including mine) throughout these few days of practice.  I've personally had this soft edge of "ha ha lets play football against Japan and have a good time" to "if you line up across from me I'm going to dominate you RIGHT NOW." So that's been pretty fun to see in myself and in the eyes of some of the guys on the team.  It's evident we want to make Notre Dame proud and have a blast.  Also some of the motivation there is so that the coaches know when #49 lines up, he's got what it takes. I've always had so much "pull" with my other coaches that it's been a little weird trying to quasi-prove myself all over again. (By the way, none of this is "real", it's my competetive nature planting images of 'the job at hand' in my head hahaha  None of the coaches have asked us to do anything crazy or out of the ordinary...or even prove ourselves for that matter.  They never asked us to 'show them what we got' or anything, i'm just conditioned to go out and prove myself every time I put that helmet on...so that's what I'm doing, hahaha.  You never knew the mind game of football or competitive athletes was so messed up did you!  Pretty funny I think.)