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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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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Now, our team is talented but very young. We lost a number of really good players and it takes time to replace them, if you can. We're working our way through that.
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Last year, we had seven players leave. Those seven players had a combined 52 playoff games. We've signed four players to date, and those four have 30 playoff games ? a younger, healthier group. I think you can see the direction we're headed.
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I think all things being equal - speed, size, strength - you're always going to lean toward those players who are more tested,
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He may round out into a player and end up playing for 10 years, and that could make us look pretty dumb,
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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's a sensitive topic. If you talk to most pro personnel people, they would rather have the players stay in to get the extra year of maturity.
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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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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.