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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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.
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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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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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They missed the boat initially, but the guys have made up lost ground. They went from being not the greatest to very efficient.
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They're all pretty good players, but they aren't great players. That tells you Mack Brown is a pretty good coach, because they were able to win a national championship with just two guys who will be picked in the first round.
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Historically we do not draft safeties high. So many guys that stay that extra year bear out so much better.
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The things that make a good punt returner or kick returner is if you have really quick acceleration and can change directions real well. (Lions receiver) Roy Williams is one of the fastest, and he's just like Roy. He's full speed in one step.
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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.
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Competitiveness is the most important aspect and that's sometimes hard to test. The only measurement you can use at all is something that's relevant to the position he plays. We spend a lot of time and money measuring things that have no relevance to what a player will do.
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There's nobody close to that Texas streak. And if not for one lost year there, Ohio State would have a perfect record, too.
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That surprised me. When you look at him (on film) his man never makes a play.
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I would imagine they are getting a reputation as a passing team. And Texas has a reputation now that they can go out and get anybody.
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I think he has the ability to play much better than he has been. This is another guy who has to understand that he's now moving up a class.
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You can have the talent at one level, but when you get to the next level, it just doesn't happen. It's like the young guy selling insurance. One year, he sells $6 million of life insurance, and then his bosses say, 'Wait until he really learns how to sell.' But then he's got a boat and a country-club membership, and all of a sudden, he's not as good. That's what happens with players.