Tim Ruskell
Tim Ruskell
Tim Ruskellis a former team president and director of player personnel for the Seattle Seahawks and the Chicago Bears, and current scout for the Tennessee Titans...
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No one was too sensitive, and we could say what we needed to say and bounce things off each other,
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You can just look at the card and almost define the player without reading the report. It cuts through the jargon a little quicker.
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(The Panthers) weren't ready for some of that stuff, which threw them off. And that's how you win big games. Mike's called it great all year long; he's quite a game manager, and he's been a joy to watch this season.
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We knew that his teammates at USC rallied around him. His coach, Pete Carroll, went on and on about his intangibles. He sets the tempo for a defense. He's very confident.
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We're not just going to be focused on that, even on Day 2 if he's a good special-teams player and not a return guy. But I would think that we would come away with somebody who does one or both.
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We consider trading down when the guys that we projected would be there, aren't there. They're all gone and we have to go to our next group, our next grade level. That's when we'll make the calls. Those guys are gone, let's go to our next group. The value is less because we graded them less. Let's see if we can get some takers and get another pick later on.
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There are many ways for guys to lead. Conduct. Toughness. How hard you hit. Different people can be that guy.
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We've just signed one of the best running backs in the history of the National Football League, basically in essence, to a lifetime deal.
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We'd already had undersized inside players. For any other team, it would have been. For us, it was, 'OK, another 6-footer.'
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It's unfortunate. The league will take care of it now, I think.
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That is a nice corner list that they have. The safeties are more than I am used to in terms of the pure numbers of guys that we think can play.
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I've known Rich a long time, and we'll always be friends. You would wish that everyone in their working career would have that kind of working relationship and a friendship, because it just makes it work.
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Not being together for a long time, that's not good for a defense. The longer you are together as a group, the better you are going to be. We can't fake that. That's just going to take time. How long, I don't know. But I know this, they are working hard at getting everybody on the same page and not making mistakes. That's how you get that started.
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Not every visit is going to be film room, practice. Some of the visits are going to be interviews and getting the detective work done.