You realize how difficult it is to get 100 wins in this day and age, with the instant gratification and where you have a couple of years to make things happen. It puts you in really special company. |
You really don't know how to grow up. You don't know what your next step is, |
You talk about this defence, the defensive tackle position and what that means, adding another person to our rotation -- somebody who's really a different type physically than what we've had -- is really exciting to us, |
You want the best players you can get. The better the players you have, the better your team is going to be. |
You would have thought more than one team out of nine would say that here's a guy that should be at least talked to, ... And you can only beg the question in your own mind: If he were white, would it have been one out of nine? I don't think so. I think it would have been more than one out of nine. I would suggest more than one team would have talked to him with the credentials he has and what he's done the last two years. |
You're disappointed when you get close, ... I remember in '93, we had the No. 1 defense [in Minnesota] and there were seven or eight openings that year and I didn't even get a call from anybody. Didn't even talk to anybody. And you think [to yourself], when are you ever going to have a run like that again when there are a lot of openings? You start to wonder if it's ever going to happen? But it does, and eventually it happens in the right spot. |
Your first concern is for him, |