"The Pac-10 obviously did pretty well against the SEC this past week, ... Our players need to be aware of that and know that our league is nationally-known and when we go play places people are anxious to play us."

"We've obviously started our research in terms of what the options are going to be for us. One of the goals that we have is to develop the players we have so somebody can be a starter for our organization in the future, or to bring somebody to the organization that has the potential to be a future starter relative to our situation."

"There's a twofold purpose. Not just for bad weather but sometimes helping players recover."

"The responsibility (Belichick) gave me with the Browns, well, I wouldn't be able to do what I do now if I hadn't had that kind of responsibility,"

"We all have a professional responsibility as clubs to live by the confidentiality rules, which are designed to protect players. However the information got out, I hope those people will take that responsibility and let us make any necessary changes. ... I'm going to be proactive in that effort."

"We want to support every player, and I think every player knows he has a responsibility for what to do and what not to do. As a coach, I also feel a responsibility to put a player in the best situation possible so he can have success."

"But what does it really mean? ... What are you trying to get from it? Basically, what you're trying to do is push people to a limit, not [to] ever harm them in any way, and get them to manage the 'bottom half,' the hard part of it that we all have to deal with in our life."

"We didn't get any information back, so I can't really report what the [problem] is with him, what the issue is, what we'll have to do to deal with that, if anything, in the future,"

"We don't have to have a reason to bring anybody in. Sometimes, you have to gather information (in case) we need to."

"Nothing has changed. There is no new information."

"We're still in the information-gathering stage. People like to ask strategic questions about what we're going to do."

"I don't feel like we have enough depth. Lance has certainly made a lot of improvement. He is a veteran player that's starting to feel more comfortable in the system. He did make a couple of good plays in this game."

"The most disappointing thing to me is I don't think we showed improvement,"

"We have no intention of moving or trading Jason Taylor ."

"We try to prevent health problems from happening. We space practices out where you have two meals and two opportunities to get hydrated."

"Personally, I hate to release any of the guys. I feel like this is our team. These guys have been here. They've worked hard. They've all made a tremendous commitment and sacrifice to trying to make the team. I have a lot of respect for what they've tried to do and feel badly that every guy can't, maybe, realize his dreams."

"It's kind of hard to get everybody ready to start."

"One game a season doesn't make."

"It's safe to say he's going to be out for, probably, a couple of games, I don't know."

"Nobody has a crystal ball. Nobody can make a prediction. But based on history, the guy is making good progress to come back. ... And as you see his progress being made, it doesn't become a leap of faith to determine whether the guy can come back."

"You would hope that a guy would want to do something for positive reasons, because he wants to be successful and he buys into the things that can make him successful at what he does."

"It's been wonderful. I really do feel like this was coming home to play a game and it was exciting for me even though I didn't say it (earlier). It was exciting to be back in Tiger Stadium and I feel really great that our team did a nice job to make us proud of how they played."

"It happens every week, so it is not fair to the players, in all honesty."

"He is not badly hurt. He told me today that if it were the regular season, he would play in this game, but we are obviously not going to take any chances."

"I don't see that changing significantly. I'm sure there's going to be a lot of new ideas that will complement that and help us improve in a lot of areas we need to improve in."

"When you're talking about this position, you'd like to really know what a guy's football intuition, instinct and knowledge is and what the capacity for those things are. That's probably as big of a reason [for the visit]. We'd just like to get to know him."

"When you bring guys in late, their learning curve, their resource of information, isn't what the other guys are so they're trying to learn everything at once. [We made the move] based on his performance in the last two games, his knowledge and experience."

"Lamar did a good job for us here. He worked hard. When you look at some of these circumstances, everybody has to have a role on the team. Some of the guys at that position are very good special teams contributors, and that certainly played a role in the backs that we've selected."

"Our goal is to work against things we have not seen that we will see in the near future."

"against things we haven't seen and that we will see in the near future."

"It's not the kind of football I like to see from our team. We'll work hard to try to get it fixed. There is no excuse for it. We dropped balls, we didn't execute, we didn't play with the kind of urgency and intensity that good teams play with. Everybody needs to decide what kind of team we're going to have."

"Football is football. When guys don't do things that are intentional to hurt somebody, which neither one of those things were, I think it's a little ridiculous. And it happens every week. It's not fair to the players."

"Gus has the best understanding of the offense right now. We feel like he hasn't played his best football yet, but with his knowledge and understanding and leadership, we're hopeful that he can show continued improvement, and that we can make some improvement as an offensive team. We've had spots of doing those types of things, and hopefully we'll continue to be more consistent."

"We had a great first drive. We looked like a good football team. But we've got to do that with consistency."

"We had a great first drive. We looked like a good football team, but we've got to do that with consistency. We just have to take advantage of field position when we get it."

"We all like winning. The fun of this is a job well done. The purpose of what we do is to have success. We focused a lot this year on the process of what you need to do to be successful. I think this team has bought into that and has a belief system that has been beneficial to how we've competed."

"I'm getting too old to run (or) jog. We have fun. It's probably good for the staff that we get together and do something like that."

"We have total faith, trust and confidence in the guy,"

"I haven't been pleased with the tackling on the perimeter of our defense for several weeks now. We are either going to get it out of the guys we have or we are going to get somebody who will do it, because that won't be tolerated."

"We missed a couple of throws and had a couple of turnovers. . . We made some big plays on defense, which helped us. We just have to take advantage of the field position when we get it."

"I think everybody needs to understand that we're not really changing our offense and we're not changing our defense. We're going to keep things as consistent for our players as we can."

"We are not disappointed in Ronnie Brown. As I said before, expectations always create frustration and a lot of anxiety, which doesn't necessarily help a guy's performance."

"Sometimes when you press, you have high anxiety, and it affects the way you perform."

"They double-covered him a couple of times, actually, so it was the right choice not to throw it to him. But he's a guy we need to have involved in the offense."

"This is a great football game against a very good football team. A lot of character, a lot of heart out there today on both sides of the ball -- that's what makes it special, when you can persevere and come away with the win."

"It's not really true to (the Bears) character and nature in the past to do that (during an exhibition game), ... But I thought our staff did an outstanding job with adapting in the game. That's probably why we had more success in the second and third quarters than we did in the beginning of the game."

"My only feeling is that the situation and the circumstance that created this whole thing is unfortunate for a lot of people. I think that it is unfortunate for the Saints that they have to go through a lot of changes to do what they have to do, but probably, more importantly, the fans and all of the people affected by this tragedy."

"I'm not blaming anybody, because that's not my nature, but we certainly didn't have the energy and enthusiasm we've had up to this point. We just didn't look like the same team out there, and I can't give you any reason exactly why."

"We want to duplicate enthusiasm and team energy,"

"I would hope that self-indulgence is not something that we're concerned about at this point. Personal ego has to be given up a little bit out of respect for one another."