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...
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We feel like parts of free agency match up with what we need. Hopefully we'll get enough Plan A's and B's that we'll be better next year and we'll give Romeo and the coaches a better opportunity to coach more top-line athletes and better players and we'll be much more improved a year from now.
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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.
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It's a real nice statement from the Browns to the rest of the league and our fans that we're serious about wanting to win. And we want players who want to be here.
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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.
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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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If those players were still here performing and producing, I wouldn't be here. But those errors were made, and that's a situation we have to get fixed.
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If we move two or three spots, that would be one thing, but I can't see us moving into the top five. One of those players would really have to fall out of it and end up at No. 9 or 10.
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We felt like we made a lot of strides and are beginning to put some things in place that are going to help us become a winning team. We know we have a long way to go. Being in a tough division with Pittsburgh, Baltimore and Cincinnati will elevate our play and elevate our standards. In order for us to compete in our own division, we're going to have to get a lot better and a lot quicker.
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We are pleased to have Andra back. We feel he is a key piece in our defense and will continue to be as we build toward the future.
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We've spent a lot of time with Jay Cutler. We feel comfortable with him.
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Reggie has a lot of talent. In my opinion, with Reggie Bush, more could be less and less could be more.
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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.
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I think he can move over and play the left side, but that's something we'll have to determine this spring. But I think he'll be able to do that.
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I'm still general manager of the Browns. We won and I'm excited about that.