Instead of lasting three days, it might last three weeks. Hibernation isn't a perfect analogy, but it isn't a bad one.

We're going to reevaluate him in 10 days, two weeks, and hopefully he'll be ready to go by then.

It was difficult a week ago, it was difficult two weeks ago, and it was difficult three weeks ago. And now, it's even more difficult. We have to win the games. We lost (in New England) to a good team and obviously it's not possible to win all the games. Sometimes you lose and New England has a good team. I think they're a better team than we are. We lost the game on the field, it's not the end of the world.

The individual life of a flower is about one week.

As a result you end up with ... higher quality roses.

We need to do this for three more weeks and we'll be all right,