The papers will say we're a different team from last year, but we're still the same team. Two people (Chris Stevens and Daniel Ashcraft) don't make a difference. They had a better game than we did. We had a few mistakes, but we could have took them.

So many people are really needle shy. People are looking forward to being freed of insulin injections. This will be of great benefit to a significant number of diabetics, but not all diabetics.

Sure enough, the tight end got just enough of me, the back was just able to get to the corner and they got a first down. You look at the tape, you study in your meetings and you see all this stuff, then you go correct it for the next game.

We talk, we hang out, we're sort of in the same boat being rookies, so it's natural. It'll be nice to see if we can stay together for a few years to see what we can do.

To be honest with you, I had never heard of him until it started getting close to the draft last year. Being where I was from, we never heard or saw too much from the West Coast, but then when they drafted both of us, I thought, 'Hmmm, I guess I'm going to have to beat this guy out to play.' I thought that's what they had in mind.

It's the noise. On game day, it sounds almost the same. I want to say Death Valley is louder, but sometimes, I don't know, man, it gets loud, like really loud out here.