‘”I don’t know if I have an exactly right answer on that,” McDermott said when asked how his team keeps its underdog mentality. “It’s probably just more of what’s been said about these guys outside of this building. What was said in preseason where we’re tanking. All along we’ve said we’re building a team. We’re not tanking. I think guys, they embrace that. They embrace that underdog mentality, they embrace that underdog role. Honestly, I think that’s how they approach every week. Like I’ve said and you heard me say in the locker room yesterday, there are guys that have been told they’re not good enough by other teams. I know this, I’ll take them on my team any day of the week.”‘