Gil Brandt
Gil Brandt
Gil Brandtis a former Vice President of player personnel for the Dallas Cowboys from 1960 to 1988. He is a graduate from the University of Wisconsin...
Obviously, there had to be a better way to do it than that. So that's kind of how it started.
contract financial guys knew leaf respond utopia work
Leaf got the big contract and that was his utopia - he didn't want to work for anything else. That's what makes this so hard: You don't know how guys are going to respond to financial success, if they will still work hard. If you knew that, you wouldn't have so many busts.
hard looking
So hard to tell when you're looking at a player. You just don't know the competition.
babies grow left
Mommas, let your babies grow up to be left tackles.
advanced athletic faster guy less risky system upside
McNair was less risky than Young probably, but I also think that Young has more upside than McNair. McNair was probably more advanced because of the system that they used (at Alcorn). Young is a little more athletic and probably a little faster than McNair was, and with Young you've got a guy that has unbelievable potential.
college disrespect
No disrespect to the college coaches, but we can do so many more things than they can do.
convince days demand few golf happens harder instead invited missing players prior second start sudden work year
Maybe, but you have to be able to convince your players that it's harder to get back there the second time. What happens is, during the off-season, the players all of a sudden are in more demand than ever before. They're invited to more golf tournaments, they make more appearances and, all of a sudden, instead of doing all the work in the off-season program, they start missing a few days and they're not as into it the same way they were prior to the year when they got there.
bad balance best blame credit decisions everybody fights good guy happens maybe next side wants year
No one wants the blame for the bad decisions and everybody fights for the credit on the good decisions, ... When you need a consensus, what happens is maybe this year I side with you and the next year I side with another guy to balance things out. That's not making the best decision for the franchise.
guys kinds playing
We just don't have the Butkuses, we don't have the Nitschkes. We don't have those kinds of guys playing linebacker anymore.
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When you look at the last three games he played at Michigan, you swear this is the No. 1 overall pick. He's got everything you need ? arm strength, mobility, he's bright. But for some reason, he doesn't seem to put it all together. I don't understand it.
draft held late
This was in the late 1950s, and we held the draft in Philadelphia because that's where the commissioner, Bert Bell, had his office.
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It's like a golf tournament where a bunch of guys are 10 handicappers and a few guys are zero handicappers. Thomas is a zero handicapper.
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It was one of the funniest things I've ever seen, ... A linebacker for the Cardinals was hollering, 'Choke, Fritsch, choke!' and Dave Edwards, our upback on the protection team, said, 'He can't understand English.'
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Everybody likes ice cream. People like different flavors.