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...
adjust certain game plan
You go into it with a certain plan and you have to adjust as the game unfolds. Personally, I think it's exciting.
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I don't know if he's priced himself out. We don't know the interest level out there. Certainly we have an interest in keeping him, and we definitely want to keep him. I think any time you win a Super Bowl it enhances your value, sometimes artificially, too.
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It's to their benefit to work out here. They'll never have a captive audience like they have here. Virtually every head coach, general manager and even some owners are in the stands.
audience captive
They'll never have a more captive audience than they'll have right here. That's what we tell them.
felt player
We felt that Brett was going to be a full-time player on our team.
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We could sign a couple of players (to replace the versatile Randle El) or address things in the draft. We've taken care of some of the players we wanted to take care of and we'll step back and see how things progress here with free agency.
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We don't say one guy's a priority over the other. We do believe that we would love to have everyone back. It's hard to say where you can and can't go, because you don't know what's out there for the players yet, because they can't get offers from other teams. We want everybody back. Is that realistic? No. It's our challenge to keep this thing together the best that we can.
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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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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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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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You're always looking for ways to improve. And each team goes about things in a different way.
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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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So many of the kids came out (early) last year, it weakened this year's group.
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We've never been a big free-agency team because we don't believe that's the way to put a team together, exclusively. We believe that the draft will always be the main part of your team, but we also believe that you'll have to plug in the occasional free agent. In recent years, we haven't gone after the high-end market (players) because we've concentrated on keeping our own players, who may have been higher-end guys if they became free agents.