People say we haven't signed big free agents, but they lose sight of the fact that we signed significant players of our own. |
So many of the kids came out (early) last year, it weakened this year's group. |
That really doesn't change anything. I guess it's different in that our challenge now is to keep this team together as best we can. So it's different from that standpoint. But our approach and preparation is the same. |
The thing about Ryan as a player is that he was always at the right place at the right time. He was somebody who could set a defense and run a defense. Ryan's similar to the types of free agents that we've been able to sign, a young kid coming off his first contract as a starter. He was productive on a very good defense. |
There aren't a lot of higher quality centers. There are a couple decent guards. The tackle depth is actually pretty good. |
There was so much in that last five minutes that I think it strengthened us as a team. |
There's no reason to tip your hand. |
There's nowhere you can go, because you don't know what the situation will be. It's hard to speculate. You have to be prepared for the worst and hope for the best. We don't know the specifics as to where we stand. It's all speculation at this point. |
They'll never have a more captive audience than they'll have right here. That's what we tell them. |
This kid put up some amazing statistics in productivity at Bowling Green. We still think he has some improvement that can really come upon him at the pro level. |
Those guys are finding that they're more at home being back in that room and back where they were. |
We are going to spend as much time on the middle and late rounds as we do on the first-round guys. From our standpoint there is really not a lot of difference. |
We are not going to lose in the first round. That is the way we are looking at it. I'm confident there are 32 players we can take as a first pick that will definitely help this team. |
We can't predict how many (free agents) we might sign this year. It's wait and see. |
We could sign a couple of players (to replace the versatile Randle El) or address things in the draft. We've taken care of some of the players we wanted to take care of and we'll step back and see how things progress here with free agency. |