We're looking to get going, ... We're looking at the big picture. Oakland is going after its 10th straight win [Friday night]. New York is winning. Anaheim is winning.

The last thing anybody wanted to do was have to go out to Oakland and have to win. But that's what we're going to do, unfortunately.

We're looking at a big picture. We need to know what's going on out there - to be able to tell people what's working and not working, and what needs to be under review.

We knew we had to go through Oakland to win the championship, and they knew they had to go through Kansas City. That made it a very bitter rivalry.

(Picking up wins) would be great for us in the big picture. A win we could steal would put us in great shape because we have Boston College coming in the next weekend and if we could get two or three there then we?re sitting in good shape. We just gotta get tough. We gotta compete.

Fixing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in isolation, without looking at the big picture, would be short-sighted.