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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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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It doesn't mean that we hit on 100 percent, that doesn't mean that every guy that enters the locker room is an angel. But that doesn't cause you to waver from the fact that you still deem it important, and you still look for it and you fight to get it.
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If (agent Carl) Poston comes and says, 'Hey, my guy is in love with your team and he wants to play for the minimum,' then things might be different.
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I don't know. He's not one of those 6-4, 220-pound guys who runs the 40 in 4.6. But he's an athlete. His father coached for 30 or so years, so he grew up in a passing system.
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We didn't want to have to go into the draft trying to hit 10 different spots. We had hand-selected a group of guys that we thought if we could get one or two, we'd be in great shape. We've ended up with four.
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They've dealt with hoopla for three, four years. You know, at least some of the time, a little better maybe, what you're going to have when you get a guy in your program.
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You're so far behind the eight ball before you come in, and then you don't do as well, ... Then your confidence suffers. In some cases, you don't get a guy back until the next year. I think that's a gigantic factor.
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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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So a guy like that, I think I would be surprised if he didn't end up banging around a few years with somebody.
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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.
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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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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.