Joe Banner
Joe Banner
Joe Banneris a former front office consultant for the Atlanta Falcons, former chief executive officer of the Cleveland Browns, and former president of the Philadelphia Eagles...
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There was a need to reinforce that we needed to stay aggressive. We were aggressive in the Terrell Owens thing, and you don't want that to slow you down when the next situation shows up. Our belief is that teams that have significant success are those that aren't afraid of making mistakes or taking chances.
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Between the three things above, we always end up spending 100 percent of our salary-cap money. It will get spent on making us the best football team we can be. Our history is more proof of that than the words. We're sitting here right now with a football team we feel pretty good about.
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There is no question he's a vital part of our team and we have always maintained a strong desire to get a deal done with Brian.
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Whenever we have cap room, it is spent in these ways, in this priority. First, we spend it on anybody who can help this year's team in any way.
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You don?t really hit everything in free agency. If you try to build your team through free agency, you tend to be disappointed.
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Our hope, obviously, is that he comes back next week and is what he can be in every sense, whether that's how he contributes to the team on the field or off the field,
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The Eagles continue to offer the city a deal that meets the city's revenue-neutral goals that is the best deal any team has offered in the NFL,
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The beauty of having cap room is you have flexibility. You make your moves based solely on the best interests of the football team. When you don't have cap flexibility, sometimes you have to make moves based on the cap. Whether it's at the end of training camp with cuts, or pursuing free agents, we've always had the opportunity to do what's best for the team.
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After that, we push as much money into next year's salary cap. Our first priority with that money is that we want to sign our players, and the second priority is it allows us to be active in the free-agent market.
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I?m not going to get into any figures. But it?s quite significant. And obviously we voted for it because it was in the best interest of the league to vote yes.
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I made sure I was in the best shape possible. I wasn't the guy who got tired in the Super Bowl.
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I have no problem with anything Brian said. We are already convinced Brian's a very good player and a very valuable member of our team. He wants to be here and we still want him here and we remain optimistic it will work out.
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Andy will basically figure out where we go from here, ... He indicated to T. O. that he'd talk to him later this week and give him a more definitive status report.
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We've been clear that the choices are to play under this contract or not. I'm not sure he still believes that, but we've said from day one those were the choices on the table, and he had to make a choice between one of the two things. That's not going to change.