I thought Day would have gotten drafted and Wallace could have been drafted. They looked at our situation and they jumped on it, so we were real happy to get both of them signed. |
I thought Day would have gotten drafted and Wallace could have gotten drafted, so we felt in free agency those were probably as good of players as you could get. |
I would like free agency to happen after the draft. The union, obviously, would like free agency to come before the draft. |
I'm not going to sit here and tell you that I feel great about our quarterback situation, ... I'd be remiss to say something like that. I feel this, though, I feel we have the best player at that position playing, and that's very important. There were times last year we really didn't know that, and we had to go through a process during the season. |
I'm probably more concerned about Jerry than anybody, just given the fact we had to monitor things with him. He did have surgery. Maybe he'll be brand new. We don't know that yet. |
I'm very disappointed, partly because I know he's a good player. |
If we're contingent on just one player then obviously we didn't build this team to win. So we feel real good about this football team, but it's a tough blow. I'm not going to sit here and say it isn't. |
If we're contingent on just one player, then obviously we didn't build this team to win. It's a tough blow, I'm not going to sit here and say it isn't. ... We'll get through it. I feel good about our locker room, I feel good about our coaches and we're going to move forward. |
It gives us hope, it certainly does. Every player has his own circumstances, and we have to address each and every one individually. But we certainly want Lance here. |
It obviously would change our direction if we did, in fact, do that. |
It used to be you never took a tight end in the first round. But they're looked at as athletes now. They're looked at as a skill position. |
It was a good fit. He was looking to compete as a starter, and we felt we could recruit him in that fashion, being sensitive to [Thomas] as well. |
It was a matter of another player in John St. Clair that we felt was a better player in his role, |
It would be something you'd want to think about. We did it in Tampa a couple times. It would be something we'd entertain. |
It's a tough position. It's a supply-and-demand business, and the colleges just aren't generating enough of them. |