If you look at most teams’ needs, probably half of them are solved developing from within. When you take that ability away, that’s when you get out of balance on the salary cap and everything else.

You certainly have to look at what the issues are and certainly have to have a relationship with that particular player, which can only be brought about by a lot of conversation and getting to know someone. I don’t know this particular player well enough to make that determination right now, but it’s something we...

Sure. I expect it to be ongoing. I guess we could take two approaches which is, make it simple, or we can keep trying to build the way we want to play and get the players to continue practicing it and develop confidence in it and kind of go from there.

We lost two great players ‘ who were part of a dominating front, … Young players are going to determine the depth and quality of the kind of defensive team we’re going to have.

Anytime you make plays, they have a lot to do with the momentum. That play did,

This was just a conversation about would I be interested or not,

We have some players that I think don’t play with the kind of confidence that I would like to see, … It affects their ability to make plays.

Every guy that we got rid of all of a sudden is the best player there ever was, and never ever made a mistake or had a problem. We’re not going to second-guess. Don’t ask me to do it.

There are good players at every spot. Including 16.

There are still lessons to learn from this game. I’m very proud of what this team was able to do down the stretch. We’re not in the playoffs, but it wasn’t all in vein.

What we’re trying to do is to develop a strategy to where [Mare] could be the kicker here … because sometimes guys’ contracts could make them targets as to what you have to do because of their contracts relative to the salary-cap hit.

There are lots of players who have had this injury. There are lots of players who come back and play from this injury, and they actually come back to full mobility and full speed.

He bought a bus and went and picked everyone up so they wouldn’t have to hitchhike,

I think that was really probably the turning point of the game, that we could recapture the momentum and come right back and make a big play and score and keep them three scores behind,

The competency and the chemistry that you can create certainly helps make for a good team. Those are the situations that we would consider relative to Terrell Owens.

Richard is an outstanding coach who has been in the NFL for 17 years. I coached with him in Houston and have always thought he was one of the best coaches I’ve had the chance to work with.

We’re pleased to have someone as well-respected as Dom join the Dolphins. He brings a wealth of knowledge to Miami and will be a valuable addition to our staff.

There is somewhat of a difference, although we haven’t seen Kelly play that much for them, especially in the regular (season) games, to know there would be a significant difference in game plan other than the fact that they move J.P. around a bit in the pocket.

We talk about playing hard and competing. But you also have to play smart . . . . We did a lot of good things out there, but they were negated by our errors.

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.

We’re not going to second-guess anything that we did. There [are] things that we need to do long-term to make our team better that we’re going to do. And if we suffer for it in the short term, then maybe we have to do that a little bit. You got to give to get.

Physically, we got beat up out there.

I talked to Ricky and Ricky still seems to be very, very interested in coming back.

We are going to start both guys.

He did some straight-line running (Monday). He threw the ball some. He took some easy drops. So it’s not like this guy is not at a point where he can’t start doing some things. Now, I didn’t see all that. I’m just going on what the trainer and the people doing the rehab with him...

This is a big part of the puzzle.

It’s the trademark of both guys in terms of their endurance and ability to get better as the game goes on. That’s something we’d like to continue to utilize in the future if we can.

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

I’m very confident in him, … Him being able to manage this situation with the first team out there is going to be a good experience for him. If this circumstance ever pops up in the future, it will be something that will serve him well.

One of the most difficult parts of my job is having to release players, and the past week has emphasized this fact. This is especially true when those players made significant contributions to the success of the team in the past. Ideally, we would like to keep many of those players on our roster, but...

That’s not something I’m interested in doing right now. I’m very happy to be the coach here, … We’re looking forward to the challenges of making LSU a dominant program in the future.

I’m assuming that he will be in a decent place from a physical-conditioning standpoint, and it will take a little while to get him back to where he was. But he was in pretty good condition when this started and I think he’s worked hard, and I think it will come back quickly to him.

John St. Clair will probably get an opportunity to play someplace else. We certainly wish him the best and in a lot of ways we would like to have him on our team again, but that may not happen.

At this point, I’m not ready to say that changing quarterbacks is going to solve all our problems, so that’s where it’s at.

I don’t think that Blaster can do what Brooks can do,

We have to get the kind of execution at quarterback that will give it to them.

the die was pretty much cast.

I’m not here to say we’re disappointed with Gus. I’m not here to say we’re satisfied with Gus. I don’t think it’s just that position. There are other issues that create a problem for that position.

Every time I ask him how he’s doing, he says, `Good.’

It would be very unfair to put it on that position when things aren’t being done well around them.

Nobody in this room, with all of our power and might put together, can have anything to do with where it goes. What we can try to do is have something to do with preparing for the game and doing our job well and having pride in the performance of what we have to do.

I don’t think we’re considering a lot of changes.

It’s an expectation: What are the most important things to accomplish at this time? To find out as much as we can about what those combinations are may be more important at this time than the end result so we can build on a better end result in the long term.

It’s something we need to continue to evaluate. It seemed the entire pre-season whichever quarterback has played second has played best. It’s the second week in a row we gave Gus the opportunity to start, and A.J. has come in and done a nice job in both of those games in the second half.

[But like everything else down here, it’s an ongoing project.] Are we where we need to be? We are making progress, … Will there be ups and downs? Probably, yes. Will we get frustrated some with it? We probably all will. Will we overcome adversity at some point? I am sure that we will, but...

There were too many penalties in the game. We talk about playing hard and competing, but you also have to play smart. That’s something we need to do a better job of. We did a lot of good things out there, but they were negated by our errors.

He looked fast, quick. I was impressed.

It’s something that we need to continue to evaluate. It has seemed the entire preseason, whichever quarterback played second has played best.

I don’t think we are going to do a lot of stuff. We haven’t done much the whole preseason. . . but what we want to do is, go through a preparation so the players get an idea of what we are doing and the kind of adjustments they have to make and things like...

There are a lot of questions about the offensive line, and we’re going to continue to work some different players in different spots to get the best combination of what we can do,