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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This is not going to happen in the next day or two or week or two. It's going to take time. We'll continue to talk on a daily, weekly basis and see if we can't make progress.
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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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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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We talked about the plan last year. We went through it. We had a tough time. We purged. We got past that. We said this year we would be 100 percent better off. We are 100 percent better off.
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That's the intention - at least talking to their agents, it sounds like both would like to be back, and we'd like to have them both back.
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It was just an awful day, cold, rainy and windy. And it didn't affect him in the slightest.
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Again, I think (he's) an example of what we've been looking for.
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It just shows you, if you're fast, you're fast, it doesn't matter where you run.
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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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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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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 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.