If (agent Carl) Poston comes and says, 'Hey, my guy is in love with your team and he wants to play for the minimum,' then things might be different. |
If both sides are realistic, then that rookie deal gets done, ... We know how important it is to get a rookie to camp in time. We know you can't make up 35 practices overnight. |
If he can't find something that suits him, he may be back. So again, we have not severed that relationship. |
If there is a regret, it's that we didn't win the world championship, |
If you could draw up your image of the first free agent you were going to sign ... short of a franchise quarterback who's 22 years old, you probably end up with somebody like Kyle. |
If you look at it from a position standpoint, you can say this is probably as strong a linebacker group as we've had in a while. |
It comes and it goes, ... He'll go out the first two weeks of the season and gain 200 yards and people will be saying, 'Well, the old Eddie's back.' You know, Eddie never left. It's overreaction and overanalyzing. He's going to be the same, and he is the same. We expect him to be as productive this year as any year. |
It doesn't mean that we hit on 100 percent, that doesn't mean that every guy that enters the locker room is an angel. But that doesn't cause you to waver from the fact that you still deem it important, and you still look for it and you fight to get it. |
It has always been a key element for us. We have never wavered from Day One. It's always been at the top of our list. |
It has to be a very, very scary situation to be way over the cap and trying to redo contracts and get your money right, and yet you're not exactly sure what effect the CBA is going to have on it. But that's our world, and that's the way we have to live it. |
It just shows you, if you're fast, you're fast, it doesn't matter where you run. |
It was just an awful day, cold, rainy and windy. And it didn't affect him in the slightest. |
It's a sensitive topic. If you talk to most pro personnel people, they would rather have the players stay in to get the extra year of maturity. |
It's going to be very interesting to see what happens at the beginning of free agency. I'm not sure it's not going to be very close to the vest because people are just unsure as to how it's going to end up. |
It's kind of a sad place. It's just such a zoo that you almost can't get anything done. There's always somebody knocking on your door or calling you on the phone or stopping you in the lobby because they are desperate for jobs. |