I figured there'd be a lot of phone calls, a lot of interest and stories. But I'm preparing for just another game, another chance to put a 'W' on the board.

At this point I anticipate he'll be out for the season,'' Edwards said of Pennington.

With my contract situation and the team moving in a new direction, it was pretty much a done deal.

There were times I thought we were a little bit more conservative than we could have been, especially in the games that we played well early on and got out to big leads. I felt that sometimes we allowed teams to get back into it because we did pull the reins back a little bit.

The position is a test of your patience. You can't relax. You can't ever feel like you're never going to get that chance. You always have to expect it's going to happen next week or next play. You always have to be prepared.

There were some games that things weren't working very well, we weren't getting the protections, and we had to be a little bit more conservative. But there were times I felt we could have opened it up a little bit more.