Everyone's concern is the safety of the players and the coaches and the fans. And that's what most paramount. Obviously, I've never watched the Weather Channel as I have in the last 24, 48 hours.

If safety were a paramount concern those two other bridges would've been down by now. You can't build this bridge without doing something to everybody in this room.

A lot of people put a lot of time into identifying players that we think we can get and like to get and see where they fit,

We're obviously going to miss Ali. You just don't get many opportunities to coach players like that in your lifetime. It's going to be different because we depended on Ali an awful lot, but the truth is we couldn't have done all we did with just one person.

The safety of the visiting coaches and team, as well as the game officials and fans, is of the utmost concern.

He was the highest rated guy on our board — without any question. We were looking for defensive backs and players who can set the tone.