I still haven't come to grips with the fact that he would be unavailable ? because he's always been there. But we're not going to put him out there and put him at risk if that's going to be the case.

I'm not the only one hurting in (the locker room) when I talk to the team. Those guys are very, very disappointed. They realized what was at stake today in regard to the division, we had a chance to get evened up in the division with our NFC record, and the Reggie White scenario was huge for us. There was plenty of motivation.

I can just deal with the options that are available to me, and these are the options. Do I like them? Not necessarily.

That intensity to win transfers to his coaches and players. I don't think that has ever wavered at all.

They've got guys in backup roles on that line there that would be starting for other teams,

Well, certainly it's limiting. How limiting? They've all run the run plays that we are calling. We've had to limit it going into this thing anyway in case this in fact did happen, so we prepared that way. But it does limit you some. I'd be misleading you to say it didn't.