We've seen when the team's on the field, we're certainly as good as anybody in our division. Who knows, if the season was two more weeks ...

That's how he is. When he's out on the field, he becomes a madman. I figure that's when he knows it's time to turn it loose -- let out my hair, comb it out, let it be under my helmet, let me fly around like a maniac and get sacks and interceptions and whatever they call me to do.

We can breathe easily now and look back on a good first season in this division.

I'm always disappointed when Tiger doesn't come, but the field is as good as it's ever been.

When you have got someone who is such a great player and very good on-field leader, it is always a very big decision to make. But in the circumstances, our board thought it was the appropriate thing to do.

He's had his challenges in spring training to get out of the gate. If ever there a year that he needed to be on time, it's this year. He's a free agent-to-be, and we certainly need him.