As far as supplements are concerned, the players need to be sure that the ones they're taking are regulated. The problem is probably 80 percent are unregulated, and half of them have tested positive for some type of banned substance as a general rule. So you have to be careful.

As far as the customer is concerned, the interface is the product.

You have to be very careful when you compare players that start coming of out this year?s draft to players like Peyton Manning.

We're putting a great deal of emphasis on special teams production. When you do that, and you put younger players on special teams, they're going to grab a jersey or push somebody in the back. That's an area where we're seeing an increase.

The very subsidies that they're concerned about are the ones that we're proposing to eliminate.

Are Oliver Perez and Kip Wells important pieces as far as cogs in the wheel are concerned? Sure, they are. But I don't like any of my players -- and I go back to having Gary Sheffield , Kevin Brown , Shawn Green -- coming to work and feeling like, 'Hey, if I don't do it, then we as a group can't get it done.' This will be my sixth year as a manager, and that won't change. I believe you'll get more from the individual if he feels like he's a part of something and can, from that point, just relax and be who they're capable of being.