He's been a great leader. Competing with him has made us younger guys work even harder to catch up with him.

There's always pressure. You had Neal Philpot and Andy Majors, both great quarterbacks, great players. But you always have to step up and fill the shoes. It's a tough challenge comparing to those guys.

I'm just trying to let myself be shown in practice and doing whatever I can to make an influence on the coaches.

It's very important to us not to have the worst record in the league. We've had a tough year, but we made some moves and we're better, and we can have a good, positive finish to the season.

When you are struggling, it seems like these things happen to you. You just hope you work your way out of it.

Many of us are guilty of having allowed Tom Bradley to do whatever he has done without really challenging him, without making sense out of what was going on in City Hall. And so now we are confronted with a situation where we have two candidates and we don't know who they are really and what they care about.