USA Inside Slant: QUOTE TO NOTE

QUOTE TO NOTE: "I would prefer we would be playing. But I told the players today, I don't want to beat them up this bye week. It wouldn't make sense to do that. By the same token, I don't want to lose. We're just starting to get started on where you want to go so I don't wanna lose that either so it's a fine line and I told them we would do specialty things this week and when they come back Monday they better be ready to go back to work because that's what were going to do." — Cowboys coach Bill Parcells on the early bye week.