Corey Simon
Corey Simon
Corey Jermaine Simonis a former American college and professional football player who was a defensive tackle in the National Football Leaguefor eight seasons. He played college football for Florida State University, earned consensus All-American honors, and was a member of a BCS National Championship team. The Philadelphia Eagles chose him with the sixth overall pick in the 2000 NFL Draft, and he played professionally for the Eagles, Indianapolis Colts and Tennessee Titans of the NFL. He was selected to the...
andy business guys hard knew moving opportunity outside position saves talked tremendous
Andy (Reid) and I, we talked and we talk outside of football. So when he called me up and said, 'Corey, listen, I'm going to let you go,' he knew that that was a tremendous opportunity for me, and they were comfortable in the position in that they were moving to get some of those young guys in there. And from a business standpoint, it saves them some money. So there are no hard feelings.
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Did you see how he made that guy miss last week? Jerome is a tough guy to get your hands around. He doesn't give you a whole lot. He just gives you shoulder pads and knees.
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I don't know whether to fault the seamstress or the guy I was playing against.
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My ego is not that big where I need to feel I'm the missing link to this defense or anything like that. We're playing together and playing as a unit. Guys in the system have gotten better, they're understanding the system more and we're playing assignment football.
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This team is poised to make a big run starting with this week. We've not played a meaningful game in a month. Guys are just ready to get out there and play a meaningful game with title implications behind it.
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Everybody wants to win and it's going to take everybody in this locker room to get it done. There's no one guy that's going to ever come in and change the atmosphere of the whole team. ... It's never a one-man show out there.
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You play this game hard and you put everything into it to go out and play well, but as a professional, you never want to see a guy go down. The worst guys I hate playing against are those who have no regard for another's livelihood.
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I think we have our own unique way of doing things here. These guys are hungry, they are young and they want to get better. They want to make a name for themselves.
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I didn't expect them to lift the tag, ... This gives me a chance to be a free agent, but I have mixed feelings. I'm going to miss the guys I played with there and the coaches I played under. I had a great five years, and I enjoyed every minute of it.
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These guys pinned their ears back and got after it. I kind of challenged these guys before we walked out there. I said, 'Let's make a name for ourselves on defense. Our offense has just been so great over the last few years. People say this defense is not comparable, but this was a first step to disproving that.
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He called me up and said, 'Corey, you know, listen, I'm going to let you go,' ... He knew that was a tremendous opportunity for me. And they were comfortable in the position that they were moving, getting some of those young guys in there. And from a business standpoint, it saves them some money. So there were no hard feelings. It was somewhat of a surprise because I had the tag on me all offseason.
continue head move next rest step week
We just need to take this step and move forward. We can't rest our head on what we did this week and then go out next week and not play well. We need to continue to improve.
ballgame physical today
We just wanted to go out today and play a physical ballgame and show the world that we can do that when we need to.
ballgame physical
We just wanted to go out and play a physical ballgame and show the world that we can do that when we need to.