Mostly it's just a matter of how you get things done in an election year.

In a U.S. election year, they err on the side of doing less rather than more.

We don't have to be as good as we were last year, ... It doesn't matter if we're 15-1 again - if we're 10-6 but we win the Super Bowl, that's a better season.

It's going to be an uphill battle. In an election year, it would be enormously hard to get more than token cuts.

It's all a matter of opinion. The goal is to do better than I did last year, which is more than 11 1/2 sacks. I'm not big on statistics, but that is the goal.

Proposition 19 already is a winner no matter what happens on election day. The mere fact of its being on the ballot has elevated and legitimized public discourse about marijuana and marijuana policy in ways I could not have imagined a year ago.