We’ve improved every week. We started off with a very tough schedule, but in our recent games instead of backsliding we’ve continued to improve.

We like to play fast, and I felt like we were playing slow the whole game because we were having a hard time figuring out where the ball was. We were getting better and better...

When you go back to last year and look at both teams, their defense presented the biggest problem for us. They’re so solid that you have to do things right against them, and when the...

That’s a good football team. Their three backs are exceptional, and they’re a hard-nosed team.

I thought our defense was starting to figure them out. We like to play fast, but I thought we were playing slow because we were trying to figure out where the ball is.

We expect to improve fairly rapidly as the season goes on.

They’re in a little better shape right now of running the ballgame better. We’re working very hard at it, but we’re not quite there yet.