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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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 just made a run for the Super Bowl, so everybody's feeling good about themselves. Obviously our players become more attractive to other teams. So they get some ideas in their head. We'd love to have them all back, but that's hard to do. We're in a good spot in terms of where our talks are with all of our players.
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We are still working free agency. I think last year our most productive period was about from now even on past the draft. It's still ongoing. There won't be as many big-name people come down, but there's a lot of good need-type, value-type people still out there.
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It felt good early on, it really did. And we just built on it in training camp and into the season.
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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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I want the guy to be everything, ... I want him to do the little things. Catching the football. Pass protecting for the quarterback. Being a good receiver out of the backfield because then the defense can't focus on, 'We've got to stop him running.'
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This is fun. The town is excited. That can only be a good thing.
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Sometimes you feel like you are getting a canned answer. The coaches love these players in many cases and want good things to happen to them and are going to protect their group.
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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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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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You factor in his durability quotient and it makes the decision pretty easy.
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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.'