Ballard: "First, every game is tight in this league. You know, every game comes down to a few plays, and if you just look at the league, when you get to the end of the fourth quarter, so that's part … I'm an emotional guy, too, so I'm on pins and needles — even the Washington game where we were up and I thought we had it won, I'm still on pins and needles. As for our young skill players, it's been fun to watch 'em play. I mean, Darius Leonard — I mean, look: people always have opinions. We took Darius Leonard for a reason, we took him high for a reason because we loved his talent, but he not only had talent he had the football character and the personal character that we wanted in a player. So we've very, very pleased with him. We think it's a shame, we had a couple skill players get hurt with Deon Cain and (Tyquan) Lewis, who we really liked early in camp and we thought they had big upside. You know, we'll see what happens here in the next month, if Lewis can get back — we hope he can — but we'll see, and Deon Cain's working hard to rehab. Kemoko (Turay) has really started to come on and put pressure on the passer like we think he can, and we think he's still got — you know, as he learns to really rush in this league — we think he's got really, really good upside. Both the running backs have flashed. I thought Nyheim (Hines) played really well this last week — you know, made a big play in the end zone on the wheel route, went over the top of (Tyrann) Mathieu and made a play — and then scored the touchdown to eventually give a chance at the two-point conversion to tie the game. So he's really niched out a nice role for us. And (Jordan) Wilkins, you know, against Washington, I thought Wilkins really played well and has had some really good flashes. You know, two guys that people don't really talk about are Matt Adams and Zaire Franklin, who both have been really strong on special teams. Zaire's played some games for us as SAM and is backing us up at MIKE, so, no, I like where these young players are going."