It's an uphill battle. Everybody works hard and tries hard, but it's tough to compete when the playing field is not level.

We've shown we can compete. But when you're playing uphill, its that much more difficult.

It ain't easy. When you can't do what you want to do on the field, it's tough. But I still want to be able to help out the team.

We played as hard as we can. … Sometimes you just get beat. We've got an uphill battle now.

We had an uphill battle.

It's going to be an uphill battle. In an election year, it would be enormously hard to get more than token cuts.