The first thing Ray said was, 'Man, come on, now -- don't do me like that,' ... We sat there at The Cheesecake Factory and talked about everything. I told him how I'd felt about the last four years, that I was tired of taking the blame. And I came away thinking, This is the guy who's going to make me a player.

I can take a plane to see them in 45 minutes, or take a train 2 1/2 hours, so I see them all the time,

He said he didn't do it, so I don't think he did it.

Hey, Matt's a good player, man; I've seen him do it before. If Shaun's not the MVP, it's not like Matt couldn't be. He can move. We didn't capitalize like we should.

In the locker room, they would tell me, 'Go get me a jock strap in the back room' or something, ... So I would go over to the Cowboys complex. Bill Bates would say, 'Shawn, go get me a Gatorade.'

I'm just like they are. I'm coming off a bye. I'm going to be rested and fresh. I'm gong to be ready.

I'm excited about it. We used to get at it. I remember when Darrell first came in -- I thought he was going to be a pretty good player, so we would mix it up.

They wouldn't let me fly to San Fran because of my concussion.

It wasn't a magical run or anything like that. We have a pretty good football team and we played well over the last six weeks. We beat some good teams. We were just overmatched today.

It's cool, man, ... There's a lot of love when you go to high school in this area.