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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The old contracts we would do with somebody along these lines. You would say, 'OK, I'll give you a $10 million signing bonus, and then the minimum salary the first year and maybe the second year, and then later on in the contract really jack the salaries up.' Now, because of the 30 percent rule, you really can't do that.
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Anything short of paying the $50 million is a possibility.
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We didn't get the only thing that matters, the ring, but we won some games. The whole time we knew we'd have to pay the piper.
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We were thrilled to death to have an opportunity to get him back. So it worked out well. It's a plus-plus, and we're awful happy.
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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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You have to probably be happy with that,
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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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What happens is in camp you can go five days and get in eight or nine practices, ... During the regular season, you might get in 21/2 practices in five days. What you miss in camp, it takes weeks to make up that time.
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We've had a premise and a game plan for that set aside all along in our plans -- a Plan A, Plan B, Plan C type of thing -- so we've been able to work through it.
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The receivers are maybe a little bit shy at the top, but maybe thicker and more plentiful in the second and third and fourth round.
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We will be able to participate in free agency. We will not be a big player. We will be able to participate. The players we have now, we have money pocketed in three or four different places.
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We're trying to standardize everything we're doing as much as possible so that at some point in time we'll be able to evaluate.
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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.