Ozzie Newsome
Ozzie Newsome
Ozzie Newsome Jr.is a former American football tight end for the Cleveland Browns, an inductee into the Pro Football Hall of Fame, and the current general manager of the Baltimore Ravens...
four guy philosophy
I look more -- and this is part of my philosophy -- at what a guy will be doing in years three, four and five.
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I guess you've got to look at it like it's college. After four years or so, the players have to move on in this system. But we think we can do it again. We think we can build it back up. Look at San Francisco. It can come back around very quickly in this league. That's what we're focused on.
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If you hit on four of those five, there is a big chance that that player is going to perform well in the National Football League.
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When you're riding high on a three-game winning streak, if you don't play well that fourth game, you can get your butt beat. And then things can go in the other direction for a while.
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Everybody is hiring or promoting those administrative cap guys, ... Ray didn't really fit the cloth of an agent anyway. He was more of an administrator and executive than he was an agent. You need someone who you can work closely with and who has a handle on all your cap dollars.
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It was his offense this year. He ran it, called it, it was his. Once we got all of our players in place, once we got them healthy, Jim did a good job, and he'll do an even better job next year if we have the chance to retain him.
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We did a legitimate cap-friendly deal with a low cap number in the first year ($1.5 million), ... We got the guy we wanted and it's a five-year deal. It's the same kind of option deals that we have with Ray Lewis , Michael McCrary and Jermaine Lewis . ... We just have had to structure some deals that way for cap reasons.
three
You have to look at it in three different phases,
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The third piece was the job that the coaches did last year, taking that young squad and developing some of those young players, and then being able to augment it this year. We looked at it and said, '03 and '04 were what we were shooting for.
add
I was scrawny. Now as a GM, I understand. He wanted to see if I could add weight.
coaching determined staff starter training
It's up to the coaching staff but the starter will be determined in training camp.
athlete explosive
(Davis) is an explosive athlete but I won't ever put all-time on anybody. They put all-time on Kellen Winslow and he has yet to play a down. There's too many things that can happen.
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It's like I've got an option play. That's the way I view it. We can break outside or stay inside. We have any number of scenarios.
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We felt like we were cheating time a little bit right there. We knew we were putting ourselves in this position in 2002, but we had to take our shot at winning back-to-back. We could have done half of this cap-cutting last year, and it wouldn't have been this painful, but I don't think we would have had a real shot to get to the Super Bowl this season.