“Well, mainly it’s him getting to know my rear end and me being comfortable with his hands underneath my rear end,” Brown explained bluntly. “If we can eventually get accustomed to that . . . we’re getting there. When you have a new guy back there, it’s like, ‘Hey, easy buddy, be gentle, all right?’

From Bill Coats of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on the budding center / quarterback relationship between Bulger and Brown.