"It felt pretty good," said Bush, who said he felt some expected soreness and stiffness last week but thinks he'll be further along this week. "I'm just kind of getting back into the motions, the swing of things, and it felt good to finish a full practice. Definitely, I feel pretty confident, and we still have until Monday. I feel that's enough time to do all the little things I need to do to help me be 100 percent for Monday.

"I've just got to really work on just stretching it out as much as possible. Massages, little stuff like that is going to help me keep the flexibility and not allow it to get stiff."

"If they got common sense, they could add one plus one equals two," Smith said Thursday when asked how he would explain the situation to fans. "A diuretic is supposed to dilute your urine, and our urine wasn't diluted. It's considered a masking agent for steroids. There was no steroids found in our urine of any level, whether it's the qualifying level or it's below the qualifying level. None of that was found. So they do the math, they should be able to put two and two together and realize we was not taking steroids."

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"I was looking to be relaxing with my family, but I had to go up there and take care of that because it deals with my job," Smith said. "It’s something I had to do. It’s very important to me, Deuce and Charles."

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"Some years, you might go through a spell where you don’t have as many injuries," Saints coach Sean Payton said in a conference call with Wisconsin reporters on Thursday. "Of course, this year, that’s not been the case with us, and you just keep battling and keep fighting. The key is to develop and train the whole roster, not just the starting players."

New Orleans Saints practice report for Nov. 20