It's lots of intangibles. He's very smart. He understands the game. We went to a lot of zone defenses, but there wasn't a lot [we did] that fooled him.

Without Moss, Daunte has a few more options. He always had his four or five obligatory passes to No.84. I think it's freed him up a little bit. In preseason, he hit a lot of different receivers and he had a lot of success with it.

It definitely seemed different. Obviously, without Randy, they don't have that guy where he sees an advantage, throws his hands up and he just launches it.

Everybody is excited about where we are right now. It's a 12-man dance. We've got one of the tickets, so let's go party.

I marvel watching him every week. He's a perfectionist. He probably knows what's going to happen on the field before everybody else knows what's going to happen.

We understand who we are,