As soon as I approached him he said, 'Don't worry, I'll be okay,' ... He didn't want any sympathy. He wants you to think he won't miss a beat. Not many guys would be able to play, let alone practice.

We gave him probably $5,000 to sign and a couple of roast beef sandwiches.

I marvel at the job he is doing,

Oh, I think they expected a whole lot when we came back. It was yesteryear, you know. They had visions of that.

You know that's always going to be tough, because we're taking a running back and moving him up to a tight end position. He's coming on, but he's still light years away and it's going to be hard work to make it up in the next three weeks.

I think part of this size thing happened because of steroids, the need to be bigger and stronger to compete with guys on the stuff,