It's a great opportunity for a non-starter to make a traveling team, ... We have a strong safety type kid who struggles to be a starter, but he starts on every special teams unit because he makes plays.

The safety was big because that turns it into a two possession game. Grand Rapids pushed some buttons early on and got us fired up with some of their quotes and some things they do off the field and it may come back to haunt them.

Cutting the safety net is the last thing the administration should be proposing.

Consideration, certainly. But I would question whether he'll ever get in, in part because safety is a hard position for guys to get in at. I don't why.

Their faith in him is at once touching and alarming -- their trust that they are safe simply because he's with them, as if an adult presence warded of all possible threat, emanated an unbreachable forcefield.

They are obviously troubled and they definitely need some help both for their own sake and for the safety of the community.