Charley Casserly
Charley Casserly
Charley Casserly is an American football sportscaster and former executive. Casserly was the general manager of the National Football League's Washington Redskins from 1989 to 1999. He served as Senior Vice President & General Manager, Football Operations, for the Houston Texans from 2000 to 2006. He currently works for NFL Network...
bush decided deserving finally finished hours last media met shift talked
There never was any shift because we never made a decision. It was the media that said we made a decision. We never made a decision. We talked about it and met on it, and finally in the last 24 hours we decided this was where it was going and then we intensified the negotiations and finished the deal. We like Bush and he's deserving of the first pick, but we just wanted to go defense. That's all it was. We just wanted to go defense.
field goes issues knows player plays shows top
The player is one of the better receivers in the league. He got market. Obviously, everyone knows the issues with the guy, but if he goes out and plays on the field and shows up every day, he is one of the top receivers in football.
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We didn't feel it was appropriate for him to be playing for the league minimum. This shows that if a player comes in and performs better than expected, we're willing to tear up the contract and pay him what he's worth. This puts him up there with the good starting running backs in the league.
defensive eight football half harder lead looked lost running rush second
This was a football decision. It's harder to find a defensive end than running backs. When we looked at our team, we've got to get better on offense, but we've got to get better on defense, too. In eight games, we lost the lead in the second half because we couldn't rush the passer.
along andre class eric fortunate gives happy line proven receiver wide
We're very happy to have Eric with us. He gives us a proven receiver to go along with Andre Johnson. Now we can line up and we have two first class wide receivers and we feel very fortunate about that.
coverage focus media totally ups
You focus nothing on the media coverage of the ups and downs. You make your own evaluation. It's totally ignored.
class couple hours interview spent
We spent a couple of hours with him, and you get a little more read on his personality, more than a 15-minute interview in Indianapolis. I think he's a class individual, well-spoken, genuine.
guessing humans infallible
We all know this is a guessing game. It's humans evaluating humans, and you know what? We're not infallible, and they're not infallible either. If there's one thing you can say about those of us who do this for a living, it's that we know we don't know.
asked attorney both defensive denied football none obviously strictly took word wrong
We asked him and his attorney the different allegations and both of the denied them. Both of them said that Reggie didn't do anything wrong so we obviously took him at his word which is what we should do. But none of that had anything to do with that. We told them this was strictly a football decision. We wanted to get a defensive end.
arrived decision pick players round short time
We arrived at this decision a short time back that these are the two players that we would pick from to make our first round pick.
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I have him rated higher than Peppers. If Reggie Bush wasn't in this draft, Mario Williams would be head and shoulders the first pick.
both case deal forward gives move plans prepared room
Obviously, this gives us more room to operate. We had two plans in place in case the deal didn't get done. We were prepared to move forward both ways.
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Nobody would believe me when I said to people that we were seriously considering . If people were shocked, they never listened to me.
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We were confident we could reach a deal with Reggie Bush too.