You've gotta draft well. You have to bring the right people in.

The important thing to take from this is we very much want to keep Steve a Seahawk and our goal is to ultimately re-sign him. This is the best avenue for achieving that.

This is my job. I've got some friends on the Atlanta team, and they will always be friends when that's appropriate. So really, the emotion part comes with the players and coaches. You have to be emotional to win the game and they know it.

The key ingredient is bringing guys in who have character, to build team chemistry, so that everyone is moving in the same direction, ... The other thing I thought was important was to open up the lines of communication and improve the morale in the building.

You can't have a harder situation in your life than what his family went through,

I don't see any difference in him. He's back to where he was. He's the same guy.

He's a guy who gets off the ball. They're looking more for a 3-4 type of defensive lineman.

Certainly, there was a lot to do. We were right in the middle of the free-agent deals. We had 16 guys looking. ...But we all rolled up our sleeves.

I know it works -- it's tried and true, not only in football but in business.

If you get your guys all committed on one goal, you've got a shot. You can be better than the sum of your parts.