That's a huge loss, as far as coaching on the field. In practice, he was the one who kind of calmed everybody down when it got hard. He just kind of did that for us.

another huge loss for New Orleans. You think you lose big when you lose your house, but here we lose a person, a person that could help us uplift everything.

It's a big loss. He was extremely inquisitive. He'll be missed by everyone.

I saw some guys that were very frustrated, very upset with the loss. They came to practice with a little more businesslike fashion. I saw some kids getting on some others, and I've liked seeing that.

They talk to us now, and ask us for suggestions on how things should be going [in practice], or what we feel we could do to be better with this and that. It's because we've earned their respect and their trust by what we've done. It makes you feel like you're all one, like the coaches are almost playing, too.

We have to execute. We have to be disciplined enough to say, 'This is my assignment,' and then go out and do it. That wasn't the case today.