I didn't anticipate having that much difficulty running it. They put more guys in the box (at the line of scrimmage).

It would scare you to death if they were running up and down the field, it would scare you to death. You aren't going beat anybody doing (that). It scared me a little bit at first but they tightened it up and did some darn good things.

You just gotta get back up and just go with feelin' the hate, then chew it up, spit it out and walk away.

We had young running backs ? when you lose two first-round draft picks ? that really had not started and they didn't know the offense as well. Along with a new quarterback, you're going to have problems. We were trying to learn as much about our players as they were about the offense.

You're trying to get a comfort zone with the parents. You want the family to feel comfortable with me in charge of their son.

It takes a very mature young man (to do what he did). He's made good decisions for his age, choices guys his age don't usually make. He's a very humble person and he's been taught well by his mother about how to receive praise.