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...
direction fourth high riding winning
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.
contract dealing excited expect hanging rebounds season tough turmoil
We are so excited to have Jamal back. If you look at his history, he always rebounds in a big way from adversity. He had a tough 2005 that started with surgery, his incarceration, and then dealing with all of the turmoil during the season with the contract hanging over his head. We expect big things from him.
three
You have to look at it in three different phases,
coach head team
Expectations are there for this team to do well. They are there from the owner, myself, the head coach and his staff, and the players. Now, can we live up to the expectations?
cap deal deals guy legitimate lewis low michael number option ray structure year
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.
browns cleveland moving unheard
Moving the Cleveland Browns was just unheard of,
add
I was scrawny. Now as a GM, I understand. He wanted to see if I could add weight.
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.
hold
Yes, it did. But I was not able to get a hold of Joel.
against best felt game
I was going against one of the best linebackers in the game and he felt the same way.
again goes parity
It goes again to the parity of the league,
board everybody
Our board has been set pretty much, and everybody is in accord,
stick stretch system trusts worked wrong
Right or wrong on this call, the system in place has worked and he trusts it, ... You can't stretch too much and still stick with your system.
gives great integrity locker military played role taylor
He could play the same role Chester Taylor played for us. His experience, his toughness, his military background, all of it gives him an integrity that will be great in our locker room.