We never use the condition of the footballs as an excuse. We play with whatever or kick with whatever we have to use and that's the way it is.

I cannot comment on any player who has ongoing criminal charges and legal situations.

I was out of the country for a period of time but followed everything closely through other people in our organization and we've made the decisions that we felt were right for the football team and we'll continue to do that and be as diligent as we can going forward.

It's the business that you guys are in too. We try to get as much information as we can and make the best decisions that we can for the football team.

The less versatile you are, the better you have to be at what you do well.

I think a good quarterback or a good linebacker, a good safety, even though you have a lot of bodies moving out there, it slows down for them and they can really see it. Then there are other guys that it's a lot of guys moving and they don't see anything. It's like being at a busy intersection, just cars going everywhere. The guys that can really sort it out, they see the game at a slower pace and can really sort out and decipher all that movement, which is hard. But experience certainly helps that, yes.

I obviously understand that each team has the opportunity to prepare the balls the way they want, give them to the officials and the game officials either approve or disapprove the balls. That really was the end of it for me until I learned a little bit more about this .