The one thing that sticks with me is that I love New Orleans. It's not a city. It's a way of life. It's a place that you fall deeply in love with.

The one thing that you know about Terrell is that he loves to play the game, so he's excited to get going. This is what these guys strive for. This is what they look forward to. To have it on the national stage, it's a Monday night football game and a rematch of the NFC championship game that he didn't play in. He will be ready to go.

The only decision we have made is to start this way. We have not made any decisions going forward in the future, and what it might mean to our position down the road.

The only entity in the United States that has the personnel, the equipment, the training and the logistical capacity to lend support to the National Guard and other state entities in an emergency of this scale is the Department of Defense.

The only frustrating thing is that we have to put our fate in other teams' hands. ... But we've put ourselves in a situation where we're in third place, and now we have to let the chips fall where they may.