There's so much emphasis placed on the combine. The main two things for us are our doctors and we can have interaction with the players. We can formally interview 60 players. |
These fans already have had their hearts broken twice. They're just looking to grasp on to something positive about the Browns. Hopefully we're going to give it to them in due time, because we really got nowhere to go but up. |
They had their own combine down there this year, ... The [NFL's] Combine ended March 4 [in Indianapolis], and they had their own in Miami on March 7. And everybody in the NFL showed up. |
They had their own combine down there this year. The [NFL's] Combine ended March 4 [in Indianapolis], and they had their own in Miami on March 7. And everybody in the NFL showed up. |
This is an area we talked about constantly since we got here last year, and that was to try to build a run defense and improve our run defense. The guy we've signed is one of the all-time great nose tackles. |
To make a quantum leap from No. 12 to four or five, you are giving away your draft. Plus, the money is so great up there in that top five or six. I don't think we want to go down that path again. We did that last summer and we don't want to go back to it again. |
We are anxious to give him the opportunity to have a focused off-season where he can emerge as a leader on offence. |
We are pleased to have Andra back. We feel he is a key piece in our defense and will continue to be as we build toward the future. |
We can capitalize on the feeling that people have about the Browns with a solid draft. |
We could pick him, we could pass him or we could wait for the phone to ring. |
We definitely want that first pick to solve one need. |
We definitely wanted to make this happen today. |
We definitely wanted to make this happen. We feel like we've made a real nice statement to the rest of the league and to our fans that, hey, we're serious about wanting to win. |
We do feel like we'll be active this year if certain players are available. If they all disappear on us, obviously we'll have to go to Plan B, Plan C and Plan D. And we'll be fairly disappointed if we're not able to make a couple moves pretty early. |
We feel like parts of free agency match up with what we need. Hopefully we'll get enough Plan A's and B's that we'll be better next year and we'll give Romeo and the coaches a better opportunity to coach more top-line athletes and better players and we'll be much more improved a year from now. |