Our offer is the most valuable and the most straightforward, ... Our record of performance is significantly better than Royal Bank's.

Our No. 1 concern is his health, ... He has a contract and we expect him to coach. We have not spent one second thinking about what happens next year, we have nine games left and I hope we win our fair share.

Jay brought (Linza) to me.

Our No. 1 concern is his health. He has a contract and we expect him to coach.

I met with Mike last Tuesday for about four hours at his house. I felt at that time that he thought he was coming back after the bye. I think he felt that he was just a couple weeks away. So I was kind of expecting him to come back after the bye.

There was a belief at that time that we didn't need the (pro personnel) process so defined, or that position so defined ... that our head coach and our scouting department would be more involved. I think now there's kind of a belief that we should have a more traditional setup where there is a director of pro personnel. And it's more clearly defined.

At some point after the hiring of Coach Linehan, we all decided to go through the current draft and then re-evaluate.

As a result of his condition, he will be unable to perform his head coaching responsibilities for an indefinite period of time.

I was under the impression, as was everybody in the organization, that whatever Mike's input would be, he would do that either prior to the game or during the week.