I think we had every coach say something to us. We had a meeting on the field. We had a meeting back there (in the clubhouse). We had meetings everywhere. Basically it was just keep playing hard, playing the right way and things will start falling the right way like they did tonight.

It's going to be an excellent opportunity. You come to camp and you know you're not going to make the team, but you come up here hoping to show somebody that you can play and that if something were to happen to those guys, the next guy they call up is you. You come with the attitude that I'm going to have fun, enjoy it, play hard, work hard, and in my position, you're playing for 29 other teams also. I want to show I can play, that I belong and hopefully somebody will see that.

Six months after Katrina, Beaver Productions is back at its original address. There's no one else around us within two miles, but we're here.

It's a huge thing for us. We really needed something that wasn't going to break down. It'll be more efficient to have commercial laundry facilities, too.

We put out a budget in February that lays out where we stand. It's hard to blame us for the fact that they are well behind on their work.

I basically just told him that if we wrestle our match, nobody is going to beat us. Once we know we could beat him, that swings the confidence in our direction.