There's been very little progress. |
Those contacts I have with those kids last forever. |
We anticipate that he'll be back, ... But if it gets to be a situation where he wants to dictate terms of his returning, then that will complicate this. He's got a year left on his contract. We anticipate that he'll be back to coach. |
We concluded that it didn't make a whole lot of sense to make changes without the new coach being involved. |
We deferred taking any action until we were assured that Coach Martz had regained his health. His doctor advised us that Mike was fully recovered on January 1, 2006. |
We did our job. Now we have to sit back and see what they throw at us. |
We had a bit of a blood-fest over here, but we picked up a win. It wasn't pretty at all. |
We had a period of time where we were challenging the league's rules on relocation that caused a rift between the Rams and the league office. Obviously, litigation ensued and there were four or five years that we had substantial difference of opinion with the commissioner. |
We know where the team was at the time he left, |
We started flat, we played flat and we ended flat. I don't know why, but maybe my younger players just weren't ready for it. |
We use that title (general manager) to indicate that there's a person running our personnel side, or talent evaluation side, subject to whatever influence or control the coach might have on that, ... But it's clear that Jay is the everyday football executive with the most authority, subject only to a veto by myself or owners. |
We want a coach that we think will improve our product and put a more competitive team on the field right now. We have identified a list of candidates. It's quite a wide list. We will do this immediately, but diligently. I know there will be a number of coaching vacancies, but we will do it in a way that suits us. |
We were .500 last year. And I'm not sure we're going to be .500 this year. I just don't know how the team's going to perform. I think we will make those decisions that we think would be in the best interests of the football program. |
We'll be able to enforce this rule. |
We're one of those organizations where the coach has a significant amount of influence over personnel, |