Some of it is belief, ... A lot of guys who have gone through Pittsburgh believe in that system more than anything else. It's been very good to them. The Patriots, it's been very good to them also.

But I don't know if I have played in a place where a team had a reason to dislike me,

We're very close to concluding a deal

I felt fine, ... I wanted to take all of the snaps, but [coach Tom Coughlin] took me out and I don't argue with the head man about that. But I was making all the throws. I threw some deep ones that actually had too much on them. I have to work on the timing on some of those things, but it felt good throwing.

You never know what you're going to get from week to week in the NFL,

Too Tom Coughlin-like right now,