The line play is the key to the whole thing. Skill-wise, I'm confident we can compete with anybody.

It seems like something always plagues him.

(Smith) just broke our back when he returned it. It seemed like every time he touched the ball, he was gone.

In spurts we played well. But overall we have to play a lot better if we're going to win Friday (against Burroughs). We've got to be mentally prepared for that game.

I need skill players at every position and they just have to be mentally tough and play from point one to point 25.

They have great skill players. There was no way we wanted to play them on the perimeter. We wanted to keep it between the tackles, where we thought we would have an advantage.