When Mathias walked into the locker room, there was a storm of welcomes and hugs and excitement - he definitely felt the weight of expectation, but was also encouraged to rise up and meet it! It certainly helped to have his draft brother Ozzy beside him, as well as various friends, like the scouts he’d met, all jumping in and congratulating him - it really did feel like a team moment - while the pair of them were being congratulated as individuals, it felt like an overall moment of anticipation and elation for the Scarecrows - a hope that things would continue to improve, and that the team would grow into more and more of a unit, and more and more of a threat towards other teams in the coming seasons; underdog comeback stories might be overdone, it’s true, but Mathias was extremely excited and eager to be a part of this one.