“I would say my tone and message is probably different every week, every day. I should say my tone is different. My message is always the same, it just comes down to where we are, and how did we play,” Rhule said. “What I want to get out of everyone on our team’s head, it’s not like (being) flat, it’s not like all these emotional things. We played the first half, it was 17-17, we played good football, not great football. And it was a two-score game going into the fourth quarter. We’ve been down two scores and come back and won, it just got away from us. . . .

“A lot of our young players are doing some great things. So I just try to talk to each player individually, as their own person, and just communicate, ‘Here’s what’s expected and here’s where I think