Somebody broke in my house to warn me. That's why I'm alive now. I don't know where he is to thank him.

We'll take the good with the bad and move on. I think we were trying to play it too safe, trying to do too many things right and not just having fun and playing the game. We got in that rut and took that nosedive again. We've got to get over that.

I was excited because deep in our heart and deep in our mind Friday was tough. I think we know that this is it. We've got to take care of things. Going into it, we knew that we had to stay intense and keep each other up. We had conversations about not yelling at each other back and forth, because last game we got down on each other.

I'm very pleased with the overwhelming response from the union members. I've gotten numerous phone calls and e-mails from people who are happy with the new contract.

I think down the road it's going to help us. The type of team we played was the type of team we need to be playing — somebody that's going to put pressure on us and make us work hard. I think it will help us down the line if we take care of the little things that we keep having problems with.

Family benefits are expensive, so it costs the taxpayer. There's also a concern putting the services in this role of trying to take care of families will dilute their effort of fighting wars and keeping the nation safe.