We've got to be focused. We can't let a QB switch depress us. We can't let it get us down. Whoever's back there, we've got to roll with it.

We've got to be focused. We can't let a QB switch depress us, ... We can't let it get us down. Whoever's back there, we've got to roll with it.

They didn't have to let me go. I was tied into a contract, and I think Coach Shanahan, being the man that he is, allowed me the opportunity to go out and seek a better living for myself, and he gave me that, and I really appreciate it.

I left as the champ, ... I've got to return as something else. I can't still be the champ two years later. Everybody and their mama wants to be the champ of something. I've given the championship belt up.

You're used to doing one thing, and you turn around and turn into a grinder -- 3 yards a carry.

He might think I'm the devil, but Shaun Alexander is a great back. For the longest time, people said he was soft and couldn't do this and couldn't do that. Right now, he's the league MVP. Maybe we need all to adopt that mentality of him staying fresh by running out of bounds and not taking the extra pounding. That got him the league MVP. I'm sure everybody will like to be in his shoes.