Floyd Reese
Floyd Reese
Floyd Reese is a former National Football Leagueexecutive. From 1994 to 2006, he held the position of general manager of the Tennessee Titans. Reese then served as an analyst on ESPN's NFL Live, and as a writer on ESPN.com before joining the New England Patriots as a senior football advisor...
cap case course lower prefer prepared
We're of course prepared to live with that cap number. If that has to be the case and if we have to, we will. But we'd prefer to lower it.
win
If there is a regret, it's that we didn't win the world championship,
cap contracts effect exactly money scary situation sure trying
It has to be a very, very scary situation to be way over the cap and trying to redo contracts and get your money right, and yet you're not exactly sure what effect the CBA is going to have on it. But that's our world, and that's the way we have to live it.
guess price sure
But I am sure he would be very, very expensive. You never say never, but I am going to guess he is going to be out of our price range.
banging few guy surprised
So a guy like that, I think I would be surprised if he didn't end up banging around a few years with somebody.
affect awful rainy
It was just an awful day, cold, rainy and windy. And it didn't affect him in the slightest.
example looking
Again, I think (he's) an example of what we've been looking for.
group position strong
If you look at it from a position standpoint, you can say this is probably as strong a linebacker group as we've had in a while.
agent draw franchise free image short sign somebody
If you could draw up your image of the first free agent you were going to sign ... short of a franchise quarterback who's 22 years old, you probably end up with somebody like Kyle.
classy coming example free games great kid looking maybe program won
He's probably a great example of just what we're looking for in unrestricted free agency. He's young, he's healthy. He's done a lot of things, and maybe most importantly, he's a great guy, classy kid ... and he's coming from a program that's won a lot of games so that's very, very important to us.
ball carry draft eight franchise guys matter rock slippery stick talented week
He's one of those eight or 10 guys that you know you could draft and he could come into your franchise and carry the ball 20-30 times a week for a lot of years. It wouldn't matter if you went to Slippery Rock or any place else as talented as he is. Those things stick out.
commitment eddie everybody expected gotten hold line maybe none past people questions stronger talk
I don't know if all the talk the past two years has gotten into his head, ... But I think he's been probably stronger than a lot of us, a lot of his backers. A lot of people that he maybe expected to hold the line with him maybe caved in a little bit. If everybody was as strong about the commitment as Eddie is, then none of these questions would have ever popped up.
bit burying early ended everybody keeps last people strong system teams three title works year
But you know what? The system that was put in place years ago works. And it works better than it ever has. There is parity, and this system keeps everybody in it. It's still a bit early this season, but there are two or three teams that look really strong and two or three that are really struggling. Everybody else is in the middle. Last year at this time, we were 2-4 and people were burying us. But we ended up in the AFC title game. Now we're 4-2 and we're scared.
suits
If he can't find something that suits him, he may be back. So again, we have not severed that relationship.