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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Shaw was a forerunner of these workout programs. He's highly recommended by a lot of people. His program gets an athlete to do the best he can possibly do and to be prepared for the combine.
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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.
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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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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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We've added interviews. We've added interviews on tape. We've added workout tapes that are available to all teams. It's like we've gone from a one-story motel in a small town in Montana to the Sears Tower. It's bigger and more elaborate.
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He didn't work out like a tight end would work out, but he worked out like a defensive or offensive lineman. He's an intriguing guy, a good guy to look at.
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I'm sure people have a place in mind for him. But I don't know what that is.
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In my evaluation of the guy, I think he has really good mechanics and good velocity on the ball, which is a big thing when you play in a stadium that has a lot of wind like (the Jets) do. I think it was a good pick. I'd be really surprised if he doesn't end up being a pretty good player for them.
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Everybody likes ice cream. People like different flavors.
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I'm afraid he's in for a crushed ego.
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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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That's a huge difference. I mean, millions of dollars.
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They both have a truckload of players, and very good underclass players. The mother lode is at both places.
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This was in the late 1950s, and we held the draft in Philadelphia because that's where the commissioner, Bert Bell, had his office.