(The change) will make us stronger. Frankly, defense was our weakness last year, and once the players get accustomed to it, we’ll be fine,

Our defense did a nice job for us in the second half.

Any bets on dollar weakness will be a bet that higher energy prices will divert consumer spending, which has been the motor for the economy.

Somehow in the locker room we lost our intensity. Defense is so important to us. When our intensity drops, we're not as tough defensively and we rely on our defense to start our offense.

Ultimately, our defense let us down the entire week, and we were unable to generate a lot of offense or come up with clutch hits.

The key for us was our defense. Our 'D' puts us in a position to go on a run like we did.