You could spend the entire offseason preparing for what New Orleans does to this point, ... But if they're a zone team, they could decide, you know what, we're going to blitz every down. In preseason, it's really about you and what you're trying to do than what's the opponent doing.

Even if we lose this game, we're still almost at the mid-point of the season and only one game out of first, ... That's better off than everybody had us being. We made our mark with those two prime-time [wins] and now we're going to just keep our heads down and keep working. Everything else will take care of itself if we win.

I think we've done things fairly intelligently. We've rebuilt without drastically slipping back at any one point.

What he did in New Orleans -- I mean, that's worse than what Bull Connor did in his entire career as a racist in the South. Look at these neighborhoods before Katrina hit. Bush made that community what it is. Katrina did the rest, in partnership with Bush, to deliver the final blow.

Alan has not been healthy, in my opinion, ... Alan is just now, with this bye week, ought to be fully healthy. That will be an asset we'll have to utilize.

You act like a man, I'll treat you like a man.