As I speak to you today, I fully expect that Mike will be our coach next year.
But then, after having one or two conversations with Mike about it, he changed agents,
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.
We deferred taking any action until we were assured that Coach Martz had regained his health. His doctor advised us that Mike was fully recovered on January 1, 2006.
Bob told me he felt it would be better to address it after the season, ... By the time Mike talked about it, we were almost beginning training camp.