(On the earliest he would name a starting QB if there was a clear-cut leader in the competition and if he would wait until the end of the final preseason game to make a decision)  -- “To answer your first question, if it was clear cut, I would want to get it done as soon as possible. I really would. I think that (the starting quarterback) player needs to be behind the offensive line. He needs to start to find chemistry with whoever the receivers will be at that time. If he was head and shoulders above everybody else, I think it would be pretty clear to us that we would start to move in that direction. That being said, as far as going into the end of this thing and going all the way to the end of the preseason, I wouldn’t want it to be that long either.”

(On if QB Josh McCown is ahead of Chad Henne or John Beck) -- “I don’t think anybody is ahead of anybody right now. The only thing that certainly, and this isn’t a secret, Josh has been in several systems so it’s a little bit easier for him to hear some of the installs. And he knows how to handle an install. He’s been out there in a couple different places, so this isn’t new to him. Where it’s the first time around for maybe Chad, where you’re throwing a bunch of different stuff at them each night. Right now in between practices, they’re getting a bunch. That would be about it, but I don’t see anybody ahead of anybody right now when I watch what I’m seeing out there.”

(On if his QB philosophy is similar to the one of Bill Parcells about not turning the ball over) -- “I do, and probably the other 30 or so head coaches in the league do to. So whoever’s philosophy, one way or the other, turning the ball over gets you beat in this league, clearly gets you beat. It’s the fastest way to lose. I think you got to look long and hard and maybe look back; I’m going to say maybe it was the Rams a while ago, when they went to the Super Bowl, where they turned it over 40 something times and still won the Super Bowl. We can’t turn the ball over, we know that. We talk about it all the time. Our margin for error that way we want to eliminate the margin for error as much as we possibly can. Turnovers, not something that can happen at that position. I think also you don’t have to try to win the game at that position. You really don’t have to try and be the guy and win the game. There are 10 other guys out there with you and there’s going to be some skill people out there that you’re going to be able to get the ball to. We think we have a couple of good backs that we can hand the ball to so be a piece of this.”