It was basically complications from surgery, and that really got scary. At that point, that was my third reconstruction, my second on my right knee. It required four more surgeries to clean [the infection] up. At one point last year, it was doubtful I would play. I had great doctors.

That's a third of your project, basically.

Basically I'm going into surgery and I'm rolling the dice. I said, 'Why not go to Vegas?' But I never did get to feeling good enough to do that.

It took a surgery to get me here.

I think that was tough for him.

Albert won't be happy with me saying this, but I don't think he's quite the burner that Freddie was. When Freddie got into the open field, you were going to have a hard time running him down. Albert is the type of guy who's consistently reliable. Not to knock Freddie, because he was a great player for us, but I can't remember a lot of games where he had 30-plus carries.