‘”Like I’ve said before multiple times, you never replace a player,” said McDermott on Wednesday. “I don’t like to get into comparing players, I don’t think that’s healthy. Overall, it’s the job of the person who is stepping in to do the job, and we have full confidence in that player, whoever that player is. A piece of this is those guys can’t play, they’re not able to play. A piece of it is playing for those guys too, because they were a big piece of this team, and still are, but they can’t help it so much now. So we play for them.”‘