(Opening statement)- “Good morning everybody. How are we doing? Eric Wright was in a car accident last night. He was in this morning and we sent him just to get some further tests. I talked to him about it. I’m really hopeful that he can play. I am really happy that he is safe. That’s where that is.

“In terms of the guys that had been out with the illness, we’ve got almost all of them back. What I did yesterday, I didn’t have the afternoon meetings. What I wanted to do was make sure that we watched the tape with the group of guys that got back so they would be familiar with Thursday’s practice. Watch that as a group and have the guys that did participate in practice, they can help them out. Coaches can make the points there and they can hear them and then they will get together with coaches, as well, after practice today to get caught up on Wednesday and the other game plan specific things. Hopefully we are over the hump with this now. There really haven’t been any new guys out with illness. That’s what I’m looking forward to, is to be able to get past this part of it, get everybody caught up and move into the weekend.”

(On if anyone is still out)- “Corey (Williams) is still out.”

(On if Wright’s accident violates any personal conduct policy)- “He was in an accident. It was wet. There’s really nothing else to it. I never want anyone to be an accident.”

(On if it bothers him that Wright was out until 2:10 a.m.)- “I wouldn’t necessarily be out at 2:10 in the morning, but you don’t have curfew year round. That’s not something that we have. I’d much rather everybody be home but guys do go out. You don’t want to see anybody in any kind of accident or any kind of situation like that. I’d much prefer that guys were in, that’s each person’s decision.”

(On if a lot of players went to the Jay-Z concert)- “They didn’t invite me. I like Jay-Z. I don’t know any more about that honestly.”

(On if there was any substance involved)- “The information that I’ve gotten, which I think is good information, it was just an accident. That’s really all there is to it.”

(On if Wright will be practicing)- “I have to see where we are with tests and things like that. I am hopeful that he should be okay and ready to play.”

(On when he finds out about situations like this)- “It depends, sometimes it rings at 2:30 a.m. sometimes you find out the next morning. I’ve had the whole range. I’ve been off with the family sometimes hanging out and you get a call. The first thing you want to do is make sure everybody is safe and then understand exactly what happened and hopefully use that educate people moving forward.”

(On when he found out about Wright)- “This morning.”

(On if players who are out late have character issues)- “As I said, I’d much rather everybody be in and studying and doing those types of things but everybody is different. There are no team based rules on those things, but my preference would be everybody is preparing at all times for the game.”

(On if Wright will start on Sunday if he is healthy)- “Yes.”

(On if he is planning to discipline Wright)- “He was in a car accident. There were no other things involved with it. He was in a car accident. Like I said, I’ll talk to him further about best practices, but I’m glad he’s healthy. I’m glad no one else was hurt. I don’t ever want to see anybody in that situation. Sometimes experiences like these are the best teachers for the person involved and for those around him.”

(On if Wright is up and moving around)- “Yes, I just talked to him 10 minutes ago.”

(On if the team had to scale back on the game plan this week)- “We didn’t scale it back that much. No, usually what we do is, you start with a bulk of things that you want to do and you look at how it goes. You tend to pull back some stuff anyways because how you thought it was going to play, it didn’t really play that well, or just didn’t feel right as you went through it, didn’t look right as you went through it. That’s actually pretty common. What the guys are getting that are in here today is, sort of, the final approach, or pretty close to the final approach. Now it’s a function of, like I said, they had the film here this morning. One of the things that I talked to the group about is we’re all going to work with them to get them up to speed and they’re going to work at it as well. None of them wanted to be out. This wasn’t anybody’s desire. They’ll work with the coaches, too. Today is a little bit earlier day, as Friday’s typically are, so they’ll spend some time with the coaching staff afterwards to go through Wednesday, the scouting report, questions they have. We extended the walk through a little bit. We’ll maybe extend it a little bit tomorrow, try to get some extra time there. It doesn’t usually happen on this scale, but guys do miss time at different points for different reasons, then you have to figure out the best ways to get them caught up. Really, as you look through preseason and you look through training camp and OTAs, again not to this volume by any stretch, but that’s the reason I like to work different combinations of people. It’s the reason I like to work practice squad guys into practice at different points, or guys that maybe are on the back end of the roster, get them some reps at different points. This is why we do the work post-practice with the young guys. You just don’t know when you’re going to have that opportunity to play or when you’re going to need to play. You don’t want to let a month go by where they haven’t worked on the Browns specific things and then suddenly say, ‘Hey, by the way, you’re playing.’”

(On if he thinks the team will be where they need to be on Sunday)- “It was a little different week. I think we’ll be in the best place we can be, based on the situation that we had. I don’t think we’re going to go into the game without making sure that everybody understands what they have to do, without answering all the questions. Sometimes that means reallocating time, like today post-practice. Typically, you don’t meet with the players post-practice, but we’ll do some work with them post-practice today and you just adjust. Things happen and you have to adjust. We have to move forward and be ready on Sunday.”

(On if he feels like he has aged this week)- “This week, huh? There have been a few challenges here along the way, but they’re going to happen. When I’m talking to the group next year about the ability to be able to deal with adversity, or the ability to adjust to things that happen that are unexpected, this is a good example of situations like that. It comes up every year, where you weren’t planning for something and it pops up and you have to go. We just have to adjust.”

(On if the team is thin at tight end)- “We signed Michael (Gaines). He’s been working and Greg (Estandia) has gotten more familiar with the system since he’s been here. That gives us a couple guys at that position. We have our secret weapon, Hank (Fraley), which he’ll probably be running down the middle of the field, wide open this week.”

(On the media asking Hank Fraley if he has caught passes at practice this week)- “He’s keeping it under wraps. I am sure they are repping it in Green Bay right now. The Hank package (joking). We’ve used bigger guys at tight end before. I think he’s done a good job with the things that we’ve asked him to do there. Then you can build some different personnel groups. We have the ability to do that as well.”

(On how he handles criticism from the media)- “I don’t read Rolling Stone. I’ve never had a subscription to it. I don’t really know what they have to say. Everybody is entitled to their opinion. I respect everybody’s opinion. That’s really where I’ll leave it.”

(On if he thinks the national media is unfair to him)- “What I really focus on is us. Us making progress, us moving forward, us winning games, knowing this is a process and like any other process it takes time. I don’t spend a lot of time on the national sites or things like that. I believe that the things that we are committed to are right. That’s what we’re going to keep doing and over time we’ll keep making progress and that’s the important thing.”

(On if he views Derek Anderson’s play as an audition to see if he can be the long-term quarterback)- “I’ve never classified it as that [an audition]. Derek’s done a lot of things that I’ve been happy with. There are a lot of things that offensively we can improve. I don’t think that’s specifically the offense. I like the way that he’s worked. I like the commitment that he’s shown. I think that as we keep going, we’ll keep improving.”

(On Anderson’s passer rating in the fourth quarter)- “We’ve got a lot of room to grow. [There’s] a lot of room to get better there. What I want to do is, be able to move the ball in all four quarters. That’s what we have to focus on, not the passer rating, but the ability to move the ball more efficiently through the course of the whole game.”

(On if he knew how hard Anderson worked before he became the starter)- “I have only been with him this one year. I thought that he worked well during the preseason. Since he has been the starter, I’ve liked the way he’s worked as well. That’s my frame of reference. In terms of my experience with him, I’ve been happy with that.”

(On if a quarterback’s preparation increases once he becomes the starter)- “You’d like all three guys to work at the same level. You’d like all your guys to work at the same level. Just going back to the other events of this week with the flu and things like that, you don’t know when you are going to be there. You want to be ready when you do have that chance.”

(On if the secondary has struggled more in zone or man coverages)- “It’s a little bit different. There was a play last week where we got picked on the crossing route. That was man-to-man coverage and when you get picked on those crossing routes, the rest of the coverage is also in man-to-man, so everybody has their back turned. Often times, those catch and run plays go for longer yardage. We also had the play where Hines (Ward) came over, he was running like a deep-over route, stepped in front of Santonio (Holmes), I think that was the one, and then kind of spun out. That was a function of better leverage by the group that came in and understanding where he is, understanding where the other defensive back is and trying to funnel it so that you have two edges to the wall and then a point guy to the wall. What you don’t want to ever do is have two guys with this leverage and a point where the guy can break out. You’ll see that sometimes on outside runs, where a back will hit the sideline, there will be a DB out there and the DB will take a step inside and get sealed off by the wide receiver and now you’ve given them the whole sideline. What you want to do is maintain that outside position, force the back to cut back in, because all of the pursuit is coming inside out. It’s a small point, but it’s a huge point, because if you give them that sideline the pursuit now has to take this type of angle, as opposed to forcing them back in to where everybody’s coming. Little decisions like that are the difference between really big plays and plays that aren’t as significant. It’s the same thing that we use to teach our receivers about how important their blocking is in the perimeter, because if they can seal that DB inside and we get the edge, it’s the same thing.”

(On if there are any more confirmed cases of swine flu)- “All that stuff, Mary Kay (Cabot), is still pending. With everybody back, it’s really not as much of an issue now, in terms of the NFL exemptions, things like that.”

(On if he said he spoke to Wright 10 minutes before his press conference)- “Yes.”

(On if Wright has already been through the testing he spoke about)- “Yes, he’s been down, tested and back.”