Mediocre people don’t like high achievers, and high achievers don’t like mediocre people.

Before Scott joined the Dolphins, I considered him to be one of the most innovative offensive coaches in the league. After working with him this past season, I also came to appreciate his work ethic and organizational skills. I have a great deal of respect for Scott, and I know he is well qualified to be a head coach in the NFL.

We have another one, Sammy (Morris). I think that's something we've always looked at as a two-starter position, the running-back position. That has been my history as a coach, to always have two guys at that position that can play and share the load.

This game is really about our players and not about me going back to Baton Rouge,

Philosophically, they want to establish the run, ... The most important aspect in the game was we stopped the run early.

We are not in the playoffs, but it was not all in vain. This group was a team for the last six weeks of the season, for sure.