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 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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There's still a few battles left. Those players know where those battles are, and they're all going to try to have the game of their life.
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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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From a philosophical standpoint, I think the whole league is paying attention to that. They get the players to buy into the system, and no one is bigger than the team. It's a team concept all the way. We all strive for that -- maybe some more than others.
people players treat
If we know players don't treat the cafeteria people the way they treat the coaches, that's important to find out.
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Some guys were not on the same page, ... Some players were working harder than other players. Some guys were committed to winning, some guys weren't. It was a little dysfunctional in the group.
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This is my job. I've got some friends on the Atlanta team, and they will always be friends when that's appropriate. So really, the emotion part comes with the players and coaches. You have to be emotional to win the game and they know it.
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Tony would run our coaches out of there to get back to their families when it was getting too late in the night.
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It was unfortunate because he was having a nice camp and we were talking about a situation where he would be able to help us as a designated rusher. He was doing that well.
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It was almost like fate, ... Like it was meant to be.
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And you bring the walls down. We've been in situations, both he and I, where you can't get anything done and you get agendas. When we finally cleared the fog in Tampa, that really opened the light ... Not so much that Rich showed me; we saw it together... how successful that can be when the coach and general manager and ownership are all working together for the same goal.
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There was a little bit of divisiveness in the locker room that was preventing our team from coming together.
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Pressure him and make him throw. And when he runs, you must punish him. He has to feel it. Michael can only take so much of that, like anyone.
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We had some divisiveness in the locker room, so we had to shake up what was in the shoebox. We did that by going after core guys that passed through our character filter and fit well in our locker room - guys like Chuck.