Our defense gets into people and wants to get after it as a team and flow as one.

I call it the finger pointing defense. They are going to say that they relied on others and if something was wrong with the off-the-book partnership, the professionals should have told them.

The defense fund will cover strike benefits for a long strike, if necessary, ... We estimate the strike benefits will cost about $10 million a week.

We've been looking forward to this. After the (first time the two met), we figured they'd come in wanting us. So we were ready. We played great defense and everyone contributed. It was a pretty good game for us.

We were still feeling each other out as a team, knowing our specific duties and how we were going to play together. That was the major problem. Once we got going as a team and found out who's going to shoot the ball we started playing a lot better.

We're playing the best we've played all season, but I think we still have another level.