the birds back to work today at the nova care complex, including bo allen who is finally healthy followingurgery to repair a torn pectoral muscle. the starters got less work than usual last week against the dolphins. peter defended that decision again today. >> listen, we had two great days against them out here, all ones and twos, and they actually played a full about a game and a half snapwise for two days and that was about 48 hours before that game. it's rare, and i don't think we ever played a game on 48 hours rest. i didn't want to put our guys in any kind of harm's way. fatigue sets in, obviously, and i didn't want to do that to our players. i thought they played extremely well, though, to get the two touchdowns on offense and defensively the way they came out and played, i was comfortable with that. >> as now tropical storm harvey continues to batter texas in the city of houston, we're left to wait, watch and hope for the best. such is the case for former houston texan, now eagle, brandon brooks, he's seen similar situations there before. >> when i was out there, there were floods