You've got to credit Houston. We tried to find film of a team that was like them that we've played and there wasn't one.

That's what I get for showing our guys a film of how good we were defensively last night (at Houston). We started out good, then we got soft. Our bench came in and was soft. A team that loses eight games in a row is going to come out fighting for their lives. That message was delivered, and we didn't respond.

We watched film of Oakland's game with Houston last week when their linemen were having a lot of trouble with single blocking. They were doing a lot of the same thing tonight.

Because of injuries and Alicia's virus, we've been forced to play Houston more than we expected. I thought we'd be going with our older, experienced players, but she has accelerated her growth over the weekend. She's a terminator and, for the moment, the (starting) job is hers.

Tom Cruise only makes one or two film appearances a year. A baseball player can be the hero or the goat one-hundred and sixty-two times a year.

He was great on special teams in college. He made highlight-film hits on a regular basis.