I've completed the first part of my preparations without injury problems. My speed is good and I'm doing lots of volume for strength.

There's no learning without trying lots of ideas and failing lots of times.

With this injury and the things I have to do at my position, my groin can't have (problems), because I'm turning and running, turning my hips all the time. I can't really go out there at 50 percent.

If something is not good enough, stop doing it.

Our first intent was to squeeze the blood out of our local turnip. That was the general game plan for everybody. But it's come to the point where we've squeezed that turnip as much as we can.

We would have been fine if we would have been at full strength. But problems were presented as much by having people down as they were by Vince not being there. Vince would have had a lot better handle on dealing with the injuries than we did.