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GARY KUBIAK TRANSCRIPTMonday, october 25, 2010(on the first day back from the bye week) “It’s good. LikeI said, we would’ve been hard-pressed to get much workout of ourselves early last week. We got everybody backon the field except for really (LB Xavier) Adibi and (DT) Earl(Mitchell). We were pretty full speed and got our pads backon. We’ll get two good days of work and get back on ourroutine on Thursday.”(on if everybody being refreshed is a big factor) “The biggestthing is that we had so many guys that were sitting herethat we were waiting on to get back on the field. We needthem out here contributing. (LB Kevin) Bentley is here backon the field. (LB Darryl) Sharpton is back on the field today.(WR Dorin) Dickerson’s back. It’s just a whole big groupof guys. We just need to continue to get them healthy. Weshould be totally at full strength by Thursday with (LB Xavier)Adibi back on the field and that’s what we need becausewe got to have everybody working.”(on who is replacing DeMeco Ryans at middle linebacker)“The decision has been made. We are going to move (LBBrian) Cushing to the Mike linebacker. We made a decisionearly last week. We thought that was the best thing for ourteam for putting him at the Mike. We want him to lead ourdefense and take over it. That’s where we are going.”(on the thought process behind moving LB Brian Cushing tomiddle linebacker) “I think the first thing came into my mindwas (LB) Zac (Diles). I didn’t want Zac moving. I just didn’tlike what I saw. I didn’t like it back when we had the problemearlier. We want him to stay at home. I think it’s aboutleadership right now with our defense and getting better asa group and somebody taking the group over. We took allthat into account and number 56 was the best guy to step inand lead our defense.”(on who will replace LB Brian Cushing at Sam linebacker)“(LB) Kevin Bentley will go to Sam and (LB Xavier) Adibishould be back, but that’s the way we’ll operate.”(on personnel changes to the roster during the bye week)“We signed (LB Stanford) Keglar who has played in theleague for a few years. He’s got a lot of skill. He was last atTennessee. He should be able to help us on special teamsright away. He has played all over the place at the linebackerposition, from Purdue. Damione Lewis, a defensivelineman from Miami that (defensive line coach) Bill (Kollar)has had before. Obviously we are looking for more speed upfront and some way to get more active and get in front of thequarterback, so we added him. We activated (DT) MalcolmSheppard who’s been probably one of our most improvedfootball players on our football team throughout the first sixweeks, who was on the practice squad. So we activatedhim. We brought (DT) Tim (Jamison) back to our practicesquad who’s been here before. We let (DT) Frank (Okam) goyesterday. It was nothing that Frank did wrong. It’s just wemade a move to get a little faster on defense.”(on LB Brian Cushing’s reaction when he was told that hewill be starting at middle linebacker) “He was very excitedabout it. I think anytime you get a chance to be a leader inthere and not that Cush (LB Brian Cushing) is not a leaderwhen he’s playing Sam, but he starts making calls and havingall the verbiage is all reliant on him and putting him infront of the group and saying that he’s the leader now. He’sexcited about it.”(on if LB Brian Cushing is up to full speed) “He’s been fine.His two games that he’s played since he came back from hissuspension, he’s been very active. He’s been fine and I thinkthe break did him some good because his body took thosetwo weeks of pounding. So we’re good today and we’recatching him up mentally. I’m looking forward to seeing howhe will grow and the job that he does with the group.”(on if he is worried about LB Brian Cushing understandinghis new position at middle linebacker) “It wouldn’t matter.With him making the move, the bottom line, he hasn’t beendoing all that. He’s in the same meetings that (LB) DeMeco(Ryans) is in. Like I said, we looked at it from a leadershipstandpoint. Does he really have to amp up his classroomwork? I think he does, but that’s not a problem at all.”(on if he’s happy where T Duane Brown is physically andmentally) “I liked what I saw. He’s been working out. Hisconditioning looks good. If there is any problem at all, wecould give him a break with (T Rashad) Butler.”(on what he is telling his players about the NFL’s policy onviolent hits) “We watched the film. The league sent us a filmand basically gave us guidelines on how we address ourteam on the issue. So, I did that this morning with the footballteam. It’s probably more so defense. It is every player inthe league, but let’s face it, more so about defensive playersin terms of their aiming points in tackling and that type ofthing. We addressed it. We don’t want to lose our aggressiveness,but obviously everyone want to protect the playersthat are playing this game.”(on the status of G Mike Brisiel) “(G Mike) Brisiel is back.He practiced today.”(on if he is surprise that G Mike Brisiel recovered so quicklyfrom his injury) “No not Mike, I expected him back.”(on if the new violent hit rule will make players hesitant)“I can’t speak for players. I think that everything is beingdone to protect the players that play this game. I think asa league, I think we should protect these guys. It’s a toughbusiness and a tough game. It’s a very short-lived career11GAME 7 • TEXANS AT INDIANAPOLIS COLTS • HOUSTONTEXANS.COM