If you give up a sack, you're exposed. It's out there for everyone to see.

I never have, not from Day One. You see hits like that every week in the NFL. When you go on the field, you assume that risk, so I don't need an apology from him.

I block down and he (guard Scott Wells) pulls around. He (Harris) just got me off the ball on that play. I just didn't get a good block on him.

The foam cushions
on the old couch downstairs
disintegrate
daily
in a hush,
like each of us,

small flecks of
hardening puffs
raining mute to the floor
when I flop down to study.

And the more the couch gets used,
the less foam it keeps--

someday
just an uncomfortable frame,
springs and other inner workings
exposed.

Silent.

A fact is like a sack - it won't stand up if it's empty. To make it stand up, first you have to put in it all the reasons and feelings that caused it in the first place.

Don't criticize in the sack. Discuss constructively later.