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.

He came in not with a chip on his shoulder, but with something to prove.

We've kind of been on his shoulders a good portion of this year.

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

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.

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,