(We have to) decide what we're going to do in terms of applying the franchise tag, if such is the case, how much money we're going to have to spend. And all of that is really in suspended animation because of the lack of a collective bargaining agreement. |
[Nor is the league kidding. A couple of weeks ago, Indianapolis listed safety Bob Sanders with an] arm. ... What part of the arm? |
All I can do is speak for our experience, which has been almost universally unfavorable. But the crux of our problems with it, if you get right down to it, is that people simply can't define what 'indisputable visual evidence' is. I find that hard to believe, but they can't. I'm baffled by that, but that seems to be defined differently from person to person. |
And I don't know if you can draw enough lines, even if you wanted to. And you may not want to because it would weaken the team so much in other capacities. |
Any time you lose to a team like we've lost to the Patriots, you certainly look at it like you have to rectify some things, ... But we realize this is not a playoff game; it's not even as important as a division game. So it's definitely not a (litmus test). If this were a playoff game, maybe. But it's one of 16. |
At least in the AFC, and that's what I'm familiar with, the competition is so close that the slightest little thing can tip the balance. |
Being outside [only] four times and not being able to really cut loose and hit the ball as hard as we want to hit it has been just a little bit of an annoyance, but I think our kids have done a pretty good job of overcoming that. |
Bill Walsh was an offensive coordinator; Joe Gibbs was an offensive coordinator; your former coach (Martz) was an offensive coordinator. It's just the current trend. |
Dominic's done it for us in the past. |
First of all you should always take the best player. |
Had we had a different system, I'm sure we would have gone through contraction just as baseball has done. Certainly Indianapolis and Buffalo and Green Bay, if they existed, would be somewhere else. |
Harper's play changed the game, and you have to give him a lot of credit for being resilient and fighting through it and hanging in there. Once we got that play, then we went to work offensively and started playing Colts football. |
He and Dominic will probably share time. At least, that's the way we see it now. |
He brought a defense that fit completely with the kind of players we had here and the salary cap approach that we were forced to take. |
He fits our style perfectly in terms of what we want our running back to do: catch the ball, get on the corner on the stretch play, hit the stretch play and go 100 miles an hour and run through tackles. |