'“There’s a first time for everything, and this was my first time in front of the players,” McDermott said. “Like I said, it starts with their mindset, and they have the right mindset. They’re here to work and to earn the right to win. For me, it really went into what’s important to us. What’s important to me as a head coach and we went through that progression. Listen, I can’t convey everything in one meeting and so you have to really skinny it down. A wise coach once said to me years ago, ‘When you say a lot, you risk saying nothing.’ The other side of it is say a little, you say a lot. We took that approach (Monday).”'