Q:  How are you sleeping these days?

A:  Wonderful.  You don’t sleep much.

Q:  Dreaming of Hester?

A:  Yes.

Q:  What is your take on how you stop him?

A:  You have to be responsible where you place the ball.  You have to be very disciplined.  You can’t make any mistakes.  You have to have great effort. 

Q:  Speaking of placing the ball, is it an option just to kick it out of bounds; giving them the ball at the 40?

A:  You are losing quite a bit of field position if you do that.  So you have to be smart when you pick and chose your times.

Q:  On punt returns they drop guys back and form a wedge?

A:  There have done that a couple of times on tape. They have been toying around with it.  No, I have not seen that.  It’s a little bit different seeing three guys back there.  

Q:  Would them dropping guys back for a wedge allow more of a chance to try a fake?

A:  You could but those guys are going to come right back forward to you.  

Q:  But it would still be possible?

A:  Yeah, you would have to have it called and get it snapped pretty quickly.  They wait until you get it set up and then they bail out.

Q:  How much of Hester’s success is talent and how much is it the special teams?

A:  Obviously he is very, very talented.  But they have a great special teams and they have had that for the last couple of years and they have done a great job of replacing some key guys that they have lost.  And they are really starting to hit their stride now.  So they don’t have much drop-off for them. To have a guy like that back there, you can block a little bit harder, a little bit longer so they are good all around I think.

Q:  Are they a team that uses a lot of veterans/starters on special teams?

A:  Not necessarily.  They have a core group of guys like everyone else does.  They have guys with tremendous speed.  They play physical so they are a very good group.

Q:  When you guys played them last year he was not returning kickoffs?

A:  No, not really.

Q:  He did have the field goal…

A:  Field goal.  He did return a field goal.

Q:  You seemed to keep him under control aside from the field goal return the last time you played?

A:  Well, there is one time that we punted the ball and he was able to catch it.  It was a dangerous situation where we would really like to get out of it.  We were backed up punting, and he went down the middle of the field.  We were able to get him down so we look at that and study why that was successful and try and add to that.

Q:  Are there times where you see him, because of the hang time and because of the placement of the ball, actually give up on the return?  Or does he always go full-tilt?   

A: I think everyone is trying to make yardage.  The reason that they are great is that they do take risks.  And so you have to have that.  You have to be a risk taker.  Go out and get the big one.  So he is pretty aggressive.

Q:  But that makes him more at risk to fumble?

A:  Yeah, but he has gotten better at that.  He is aggressive, which you want out of your returner.

Q:  Have you been generally pleased with how the coverage teams have played lately?

A:  We have gotten better from where we started.  We weren’t really good when we started, so that has continued to improve.  A lot of young guys are getting comfortable at it and it is going to continue to improve each week.