Where do you stand on the Shaun Alexander debate?

"I am speaking at his church coming up on Saturday. I don’t see it as much of a debate. Shaun, we know the type of back he can be. We know he has been hurt and it has affected his play the last couple years. I am not ready to buy into the fact that he hit 30 and all of a sudden he can’t play anymore. As I have said so many times, he is the lightning trod all last season. It is going to be a show-me type of year though. But I am not ready to write that one off yet."

Given what he will make next year, and given his price relative to his productivity, do you have to ask him to take a pay cut?

"I don’t have to ask him to do any of that. Someone else can do that if they choose to do that."

Did you hear his stance on that? On the radio he said classy organizations don’t ask their players to do that.

"I would argue with him about that. Sometimes you have to do those things. You absolutely have to do those things. And I wasn’t being a wiseguy about that. But I don’t have to do that anymore. Someone else does. And those discussions, I haven’t been privy to that discussion yet. When the time comes, if we have to have that discussion, we will have it. Balancing the salary cap and getting everything working properly, we have good guys who do that. I am still hopeful we can get something long-term with Trufant and give us a little relief from the salary cap. I hope so."