Obviously you can talk about the fact I hadn't played very well for the last year. But I am perfectly content, and believe that I will play like I can play again this year.

We obviously played our best game of the year (last week).

Obviously, they got a heck of a player. He did a real nice job improving every year that he played for the Rams.

The fact that we played them last year and beat them by three, I'm sure that's an incentive for them. On the flip side, it's kind of a confidence thing for us.

The third period was obviously everything we had. The first and second were the worst periods we played all year long.

Obviously the extremists want to provoke sectarian warfare, and I am struck by the fact that over a three-year period, leaders of the (Iraqi) communities have been quite resistant to this. The test is whether the political process continues.