Kevin Colbert
Kevin Colbert
Kevin Colbertis the general manager of the National Football League's Pittsburgh Steelers since the start of 2000. He is widely credited with putting together the Super Bowl XL and the Super Bowl XLIII teams in Pittsburgh along with owner Dan Rooney, president Art Rooney II, and coaches Bill Cowher and Mike Tomlin...
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That really doesn't change anything. I guess it's different in that our challenge now is to keep this team together as best we can. So it's different from that standpoint. But our approach and preparation is the same.
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They'll never have a more captive audience than they'll have right here. That's what we tell them.
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As we say every year, I don't think anybody ever thinks that they had a bad draft. We are no different. We are happy with the way things turned out.
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It's a very highly competitive division and is only going to get better because these kids are so young. We liked Charlie Frye when we did the evaluations on him last year.
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It's probably just one group of guys came of age together where their contracts expired or reached a point where they were all available at the same time. It's a little unusual to have that many marquee guys available. I don't think it was any design or plan. It's unusual to have that caliber available right now.
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There was so much in that last five minutes that I think it strengthened us as a team.
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People say we haven't signed big free agents, but they lose sight of the fact that we signed significant players of our own.
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There's nowhere you can go, because you don't know what the situation will be. It's hard to speculate. You have to be prepared for the worst and hope for the best. We don't know the specifics as to where we stand. It's all speculation at this point.
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The thing about Ryan as a player is that he was always at the right place at the right time. He was somebody who could set a defense and run a defense. Ryan's similar to the types of free agents that we've been able to sign, a young kid coming off his first contract as a starter. He was productive on a very good defense.
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Once the situation is settled it'll go very quickly. But if it isn't, it's going to go real slow because it's uncharted waters. You don't want to make a move that you may not have to make, and we're uncertain of what we can do until this thing gets ironed out.
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You're always looking for ways to improve. And each team goes about things in a different way.