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...
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Ronnie Brown is a really good football player, a wonderful guy and a talented player, ... A lot of times, players have an advantage of playing with a team that has more offensive weapons. I would think right now, if the spots were changed, Ronnie Brown would be doing what Cadillac is doing.
player quality seldom shows starts
That shows the quality of their program. Very seldom do you even have one player who starts as a rookie.
head jumping line talk watch work
You see who's going to work and who isn't. You see who's jumping to the head of the line in drills. You watch up close, then go back to the (hotel) and talk to them.
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.
people surprise
Cedric Griffin, he's going to surprise some people in the draft,
left pass positions rushing tackle team three
But the three most important positions on a team are the quarterback, the left tackle and the pass rushing end.
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.
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.
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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.
Obviously, there had to be a better way to do it than that. So that's kind of how it started.
boat greatest guys lost missed
They missed the boat initially, but the guys have made up lost ground. They went from being not the greatest to very efficient.