He is really a talented kid. We're still pretty young on the defensive side of the ball, and he provides some maturity, and he provides some leadership that we need with we're dealing with such a young group of kids.

I'm not really sure what the presidents' rationale is for why 31 teams can go [to the postseason] and one selected team cannot.

If you look at the returning marquee kids in the league ... [they] are tailbacks. A couple of years ago they were all wide receivers.

We've got a chance to be a decent defense. We're not there yet.

Any time you get a different color jersey, it's beneficial and it also give you an idea of where you are.

We were trying to replace some very talented kids. He was trying to replace the player of the year, which is never easy. Maybe our expectations were not what they should have been. I think he had a productive year, even though it was somewhat inconsistent to Mike Mitchell and Gavin Hoffman.