Even when you do double-cover him, he goes and gets it.

The nice thing for our defense is they have to face the same thing every day in practice.

It's been awesome for me. I'm very fond of my time here. At the same time Christopher Columbus set sail once and people thought he was crazy. Sometimes in your life you have to be able to do that a little bit, and that's what I'm doing.

It's a lot easier when all you have to do is just punt.

Football's about having fun. Playing defense, you've got to be aggressive. I know it's easier said than done, but you can't be afraid to make a mistake. ... I thought they had more fun, they played more loose, they were more aggressive, and consequently they were more effective.

It's a very ugly and tragic situation all the way around,

It's just not an easy schedule for us. We have to embrace that and be able to hold hands with the beast.

There's an ancient Chinese saying that goes something like this. All you need is Hawk love.

There's an opportunity to kind of go, 'OK, we're finally home,' and Portland State, they did a nice job (in a 41-14 season-opening loss) against Oregon State.

There's a side of me that goes out to him, because I know he's got to answer that question (about beating Boise State), and I know that's not fun. We don't get into (the streak). We never talk about that. That's not part of what we do at all.