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...
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Two great attributes for a coach are: one, to be able to teach everybody on the squad, and two, to get players on the squad to play better than they are. Those things are very, very, very difficult to do, and very few in the league can do it.
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All along, we have had two plans put together. One if a deal got done and one if it didn't. Plan A and Plan B. Everybody hopes for A, but you made the other one for a reason, I guess.
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Kevin has been extremely durable just year after year. Kevin is one of those guys who understands what winning is and knows how to win and can help everybody along that way.
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He was always a half a step ahead of everybody else.
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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.
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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.
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We're very pleased to have Kyle here for the next several years. Last season he exemplified himself as an important part of our defense through his work ethic and intensity on and off the field. It helps us to get something worked out with him before free agency, and I think both parties in this case were able to accomplish what they wanted with the deal.
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We're very pleased to have Kyle here for the next several years.
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I've seen players test in single digits and play 10 years, and I've seen some guys test in the 30s that couldn't walk across the street.
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Quarterback, the most important position in professional sports. So all you need to do is find one before your career is over.
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Rather than trying to hit two or three moving targets, that is trying to get the right coach or the right GM or the right coordinator or whatever it is, they keep that pretty much stable. Now all they have to do is go find another one of these kinds of players, plug them, and in theory, you should be right back and running at full speed.
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People get a giant misconception about running backs in the NFL,
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The thing that is really unique about it is that this at least the third year in a row where you could go out and say, 'Well, how much can he improve?'Â ... But after six games this year, he's off the charts, and yet there's nothing to make you say this is as good as he's going to get or he'll never be better. I don't know where he goes from here, but right now he's doing pretty darn good.
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The thing, of course, you're afraid of as much as anything right now is him jumping in there and getting a pull or twisting an ankle or something like that ... and that slows him down even more. It's very scary and you have to be careful how you handle it.