Phil Savage
Phil Savage
Phillip Savage, Jr.is a former general manager for the Cleveland Browns of the National Football League. He was the senior vice president and general manager of the Browns from 2005 to 2008. He served as Director of Player Personnel for the Baltimore Ravens under General Manager Ozzie Newsome, a former Browns' player and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, from 2003 to 2004. He was a scout for the Browns from 1993 to 1995. He is currently the...
almost carrying game impossible somebody
When you're carrying it 20 or 25 times a game for 16 games, I think that's almost impossible for somebody (his size) to do.
definitely pick solve
We definitely want that first pick to solve one need.
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We definitely wanted to make this happen. We feel like we've made a real nice statement to the rest of the league and to our fans that, hey, we're serious about wanting to win.
definitely happen
We definitely wanted to make this happen today.
active certain couple disappear fairly moves obviously plan players year
We do feel like we'll be active this year if certain players are available. If they all disappear on us, obviously we'll have to go to Plan B, Plan C and Plan D. And we'll be fairly disappointed if we're not able to make a couple moves pretty early.
almost player projection
Almost every player is a projection in the 3-4 defense.
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A lot of people put stock in 40-yard dash times. If you go back and research it and pull out Ray Lewis' numbers, you will see that they are extremely close. Almost identical. I'm not saying this kid is Ray Lewis, but I'm saying he has some of those same type qualities and same type of demeanor.
easily fake might players position year
There's a position or two where we might try and fake it for another year and do a combination of players at one spot. That could easily happen.
guy physical question
That's going to be the question on him - can he do it on a down-to-down basis? But he's so massive. He's a very big guy that can be a very physical force.
four guys
That's four guys who can play in this league.
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This is an area we talked about constantly since we got here last year, and that was to try to build a run defense and improve our run defense. The guy we've signed is one of the all-time great nose tackles.
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I think the comfort level would be five, six, seven spots. I don't think you'd want to go much further than that. If we have three or four players we still really like, we could move back to 16 and still get one of them.
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Our intent from the beginning was to combine free agency with the draft to make us a better team for 2006 and hopefully beyond that.
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I think that's part of the criticism the previous group had taken. They didn't acknowledge that Ohio football's pretty good.