When you turn the football over four times and are minus-3 in the giveaway-takeaway ratio, you aren't going to win many football games,

It's become more of a production. It's a big production. It was big back then. I don't know, it's a big to-do. But they still have to play a football game when it's kicked off. At that point, we've got to be ready to play football.

I don't know if I've been around a player more respected on a football team.

I think he's going to be one of those guys where the day comes and he's not there, there's going to be a void there because it seems like he's always been there every week. We've been through a lot together and I have a tremendous appreciation, more than I can express, for what he stands for as a football player but, more so, for what he stands for as a person.

Still, overall as a football team, we still have a ways to go.

That football team is well run. The people who have taken over were in that system,

You have to keep your composure. We gave up some rushing yards. They were able to run the football effectively in the first half.

Their defense is a lot like ours, from the standpoint of scheme-wise. They have good players down there that run it.

Willie's got the one thing we've never had - the speed. For a team that runs the football the way we want to run the football, to have a big-play player back there is a bonus.