Q: Can you sum up your camp experience this year?

HERM EDWARDS: “I thought we got a lot accomplished. I complimented the players and the coaches, especially the coaching staff. I thought they did a great job on offense, defense and special teams. And really feeling a little bit of toughness, that’s what you want to find out at training camp with pads on. That’s the missing element when you’re in the spring. When you come here you find out who the physical players are going to be.”

Q: Can you talk about the youth and enthusiasm?

EDWARDS: “Well that’s what’s good about it. With young guys, they never get tired of talking. That generally stirs the competition. You know that in football. It was all good chatter, never anything negative, just having fun. When you work hard and have fun, you get a lot of things accomplished. The attitude here was very good, and now we have to continue to improve.”

Q: Is there any update today on the availability of DT Turk McBride, DT Glenn Dorsey or T Damion McIntosh?

EDWARDS: “Turk will be okay. Glenn will be okay. We’ll figure out in warm-ups if Dorsey can go, and he probably can go but we’ll be selective with him. (RB Jamaal) Charles’ shoulder is hurt and he probably won’t go. S Jon McGraw probably will not go. McIntosh should be fine.”

Q: If Dorsey does go?

EDWARDS: “He’ll be limited. We want to get him in. He’s got two weeks left.”

Q: What is the status of RB Jamaal Charles?

EDWARDS: “He hurt his shoulder. He’s going to be fine, but we’re going to be very careful with him. He kind of fell on it. He’ll be okay, we’ll keep him out, he’s sore.”

Q: How are you going to handle your quarterback rotation this week?

EDWARDS: “Probably like we did last week, to be quite honest with you. Probably do the same thing again. Probably (QB) Brodie (Croyle) will stay in a little later, get him to the second quarter. He just needs to play. If we have a couple drives again, that’s good. We’d like to get him in during two-minute. Both the other quarterbacks have been in for two-minute. I’m hoping we can move the ball again and score some points.”

Q: Is that more likely to happen in the third game, the two-minute test with QB Brodie Croyle?

EDWARDS: “Yeah. But depending on how this thing goes, you never know. But yeah, third game for sure. You’d like to get him in there for that. You can play offense for two minutes, but you can’t script it.”

Q: Do you like River Falls?

EDWARDS: “Yeah. It’s a good place. I was here in the beginning when the fire engines were here and they had a parade for us. No more parades. But they’ve upgraded the place. I think they’ve done a good job, especially this year with the dorms we’re staying in. You know (Chiefs groundskeeper) Andre (Bruce) comes up here and does the field, so the field is good. The fans are very good, they’re always glad to see us. We do what we’ve got to do. We don’t need a parade. It was okay the first year, but after 20 years, 19 years, you don’t need a parade.”