I'm finally starting to come along. I'm glad about that. Still trying to work hard and learn the little things, you know? You still can always get better at something.

I was trying to get up and soar like Mike. But I'm not too tall, so it didn't work well.

I think he's trying to mold me the same kind of way. Initially, he used to talk about Tom Brady a lot. He doesn't necessarily bring him up as much now. I'm nowhere close to the magnitude of where (Brady) is right now.

We were trying to get him back on the field. We saw him a little bit Monday and last Friday. He was coming around and healing a little, and you could see him getting more confidence.

But I do know that just physiologically, when a team comes to Florida, you're hotter than you've been all training camp because you haven't been practicing in that type of weather consistently.

I read The Civil War Infantryman , which talked about making 20-mile marches in the dead heat of summer in wool uniforms, then sitting down to eat salt pork. I'm sleeping in air-conditioned hotels, with good food every day and, like, a made-to-order omelet station. Who am I kidding about how difficult this is?