Familiar cliches morphed into fresh metaphors Monday, and pretty soon Vikings defensive end Brian Robison had branded one of the NFL's stingiest units as a bunch of alley fighters on an assembly line.
"We're a defense that wants to impose our will on teams," he explained. "We want to be more physical. We want to take the fight to them and have that blue-collar work ethic every single day. Every day we come to work with that lunch pail and do what we need to do to be better the next day."
So what is in your lunch pail?