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...
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I think if people had just listened to what we had said, they would have seen that we were serious about Mario Williams. Once we brought him in here our statements never changed that we were seriously considering him for the first pick in the draft and I understand that people didn't believe it, but we always said it and we believed it.
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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.
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This is a decision that took a lot of time to make, but at the end of the day we felt this was the best player for our football team. Both players, Reggie Bush and Mario Williams, are going to, I think, be great pros. We made the decision to go with defense.
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I think that if Reggie Bush wasn't in this draft, Mario Williams would be head and shoulders the first pick in this draft. What you have ... is a pass rusher who has unique size and speed for the position. He's almost 6-foot-7 and runs a 4.7 (40-yard dash). Vertical jump is exactly the same as Reggie Bush and he's 90 pounds heavier.
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Mario Williams is a better fit for us. It was strictly about a football decision.
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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.
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I've been told it was inaccurate by a source good enough for me to quote it.
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Right now we have nobody interested in that first pick, so we have gone ahead and begun negotiations with two players.
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On Thursday, we made a decision to go with Mario, and we said that if we could get him, then let's sign him. We were confident we could have worked a deal with Bush, too, but we made the decision to go with defense over offense because our pass rush hasn't been what it needed to be.
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You focus nothing on the media coverage of the ups and downs. You make your own evaluation. It's totally ignored.
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There's no gloom and doom here. All of us have been through tough times before.
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We don't have a cap problem. But, obviously, our activity in free agency would be significantly affected by whether there's a deal or not.
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We had made progress in each of our first three years, and we had a better team coming back this year. But the injuries to key people have really hurt.
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I was told that's an inaccurate report from a very good source.