Q. Do you speak personally to each player who gets cut?**

A. I'm available to each guy who gets cut. During that process, I want to provide these guys with what they want, or need. Some guys need discussion and want some clarity in terms of what produced the decision. Some guys just want to shake your hand and wish you the best and get out of the building. I've learned that those situations are not about me but about those guys, and I generally provide them with what they need, or want.

Q. Is it your experience that most of the guys who get cut seek out that one-on-one time?

A. Surprisingly, it's about 50-50. Half the guys need a little discussion and some clarity about what produced the decision, and half the guys don't want to talk about it. I've learned that it's tough to predict which side each individual guy is going to be on. I really just think it's about what's going through their mind at the moment and how they deal with the information they're receiving.

Q. Do you believe it's ever your place to give a guy some advice, such as "I don't think you belong in the NFL." Or, "You were really close to making the team, don't give it up?"

A. I provide advice when it's wanted, or if I feel like it's needed. So it's usually about the relationship I have with the individual, or what that individual needs at that moment. Again, I try to not make it about myself, I try to make it about them. Some guys want a discussion and need encouragement. Some guys don't.

Q. Would you allow a player to come in and just vent? Would you sit there and just listen if a player wanted to get something off his chest?

A. In 10 years, I haven't had a guy vent in the way you would imagine. Usually it's just disappointment. I haven't heard first-hand of anybody being hacked off because they got cut, not in any organization I've ever been a part of. This is a long trek, an unbelievable journey, and usually most of the time the guys who are on the bubble, if you will, they are emotionally spent by the time they get there. And if they're on the wrong side of it, there is really just a general disappointment. Or in some cases, a relief that the trek is over.

Q. The preseason ends tonight, and another portion of the process will be over. Are you satisfied with the work that got done in these preseason games?

A. I've been happy with the process. I like the work that has been done. I feel good about our general readiness to this point. When you look back on it with 20-20 vision, training camps, preseasons, and the like are all done in an effort to set you up for a season. A true assessment of any element of this process that we've been through is done based on how we perform and our larger body of work in this journey that awaits us.

Q. Is any part of your assessment based on the health of your team as it comes out of the preseason?

A. I don't over-analyze the injury element of it. I just acknowledge that it's going to be a part of it.

Q. Do you have an opinion about the length of the preseason?