There are a lot of guys who might be the best, but I'd have to say Chris McAlister. I've played against him a few times and honestly he gets better each time I face him. He just seems to keep maturing in their system, and he's a talented guy. He's a guy who was voted to the Pro Bowl about one or two years later than he deserved to be because he's someone who they can put on the other team's best receiver and just expect him to hold that guy in check. |
There are a lot of toolkits out there, and I think you'll see toolkits will consolidate around certain developer communities. |
They are mostly career people doing a thankless job that not everybody understands how tough it is ... and they are really down right now. They are as down as I've seen them in terms of just worrying about their futures and the future of what they do and the respect for what they do. |
They played better. Opportunities are limited in this business. When you get them, you have to take advantage of them. We didn't take advantage. |
They probably needed a fresh start. |
This is all you work for, to be in this situation and win. And we didn't get it done. |
This is one of the best teams we've brought in here in the last six or seven years and we still found a way to come out on the low end. |
Those are tragedies that have to be addressed on a national level. |
Turkey populations are in good shape right now. We had a solid hatch last year that should sustain turkey numbers at a high level through this spring. |
We gave them way more opportunities than they needed, and they took advantage of them. |
We go out and do drills with them because a sailboat is an unusual thing for them to tow, ... And anytime they want to sail, they can give us a call and we'll take them out sailing. I know what they do, it's hard work. Anytime they want to go up river and eat oysters, we'll take them. |
We had a customer, old Col. Franklin. His doctor was in Los Angeles and his house was on Balboa Island. His big decision was, should he move closer to his doctor or stay close to the gas station so we could take care of his cars! That's the kind of station Jim ran. |
We had a good season, but it's still a failure to me. That's in my eyes, that's nobody else's opinion, that's my opinion because I know what it's like to hold the trophy at the end. But anything less than that is a failure to me. . . . When we needed it the most, we didn't get it. Their team was better. |
We have a lot of fun. That's one thing we do. |
We knew this was going to be our night. We knew it all week. This was one of those special weeks. We heard all week about how there was no way New England could lose. We had a great week and knew this was going to be the night. |