It was a tough decision. But the co-chairman and the single biggest donor decided to come to Great Falls instead.

I tried to play it off like I was sweating. It just really felt good.

Then it's a personal decision from there. I want him to feel, first of all, it's fixed and he can live the rest of his life with it. And if he wants to play football, we'll find out. We won't know that for a while.

Denver made a conscious decision that they wanted to buy their own system, and tying into the state's system was secondary.

I feel very optimistic about his decision, but he needs to be 110% between the breastplates because you want him to come back and play like he always has and like we all enjoy and love. We're going to give him the timeframe that he needs.

It can take hours, days even weeks to make what we think is the right decision yet only take seconds to realise it was the wrong one.