He told me, 'I feel better,' ... He has his conditioning and he doesn't get as winded as he has a little more stamina and strength.

That can take up to four weeks, is what I've been told,

Really, what I told Mike was — and I put myself in the same category — you get so caught up in this that it, at times, appears to become more than life and death,

As I've told the team, ultimately you'll be judged by what happens and where you are at the end of the season. I understand why we are the underdogs, and there's really only one way to handle that. That's not by talking, it's by playing the game and seeing what happens.

I told him sometime in the season we were going to be in the exact situation, and he was going to make it. And he did.

I told Matt at halftime that he had to shoulder the load. We always put a lot on his shoulders, but I told him that now he had to do a little bit more.