On the Patriots All-Access television program, RB Steven Jackson relayed that when Bill Belichick first called him about coming for a December tryout, he told him that before he could accept he had to put himself through his own workout with his personal trainer. "I wanted to be honest with myself and I wanted to be honest with Coach. I said, ‘Coach, I really appreciate the phone call but I want to make sure that if I come in I want to be effective. Let me work myself out.' … Once I went through that workout, about two hours, I looked for all the reasons to say ‘no' and I didn't find it. I called Coach back and said ‘I want to take you up on that offer it's still available.'"