Just getting healthy to be able to be out there is refreshing. I feel all right. The whole point was getting healthy. Nobody is 100 [percent].

Winning cures a lot of things, ... That was one of my biggest gripes, just not being able to compete.

I feel like, with myself, I ruined myself to the point where I wasn't functional enough to work for anybody, even myself. I wasn't working.

Mitchell said. ''He's still ticking pretty good. No question the system you run in is very important. How do you get your yards? Ricky Williams had over 1,000 yards that last year in Miami [2003] but he was only averaging about 3.5 yards a carry. That's tough, tough yardage. Your body will only take but so much of that. Corey can get those yards, but he gets them outside, too.

It's good to have a two-way [team], a passing game as well as a running game,'' New England safety and team co-captain Rodney Harrison said.

In situations like that, you're really unsure about how you're going to perform, but once I got out there (I was OK), ... Believe me, I've been doing this since I was 6 years old. It's nothing. This is what I do. This is what I get paid to do.