David Stearns

And I think that's good for us.

This is an exciting team.

This is a very good team.

As we stand right now, and we're committed to doing everything we can to consistently compete here, put championship caliber teams on the field.

I think in any transaction period, and certainly throughout the winter meetings, you want to make your team better.

And I think we're focused on doing that.

We also know it's a really long offseason.

We'll see whether we're able to get anything done here.

At this point, it's too early for me to know that one way or the other.

But I am confident that we're making progress to hopefully make some transactions that we think really help our team and our organization going forward.

I think we're open-minded to getting better anywhere.

I don't think there's a segment of our team right now that we can look at or that we would look at and say that's a finished product.

So we have to be open-minded to all of the above.

very open and I've been very open from the moment our season ended that we have to get better at keeping runs off the board and I think we've made some progress in doing that and we're going to continue to look at areas where we can add players to our team that help us do that.

I did see Pete was coming.

I think Pete knows us really well.

I think we know Pete really well.

I think he'll take the time here to perhaps meet with organizations he doesn't know quite as well, and I'm sure we'll be in touch.

I'm not going to characterize it.

I think I'll stick to my policy of not commenting on negotiations as they're ongoing.