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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Most people would see that their glasses were broken and do the interview without them. But Tony felt it was important to see who he was talking to, so he kept the glasses on.
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We told him we would not talk with him again until after the draft, if that's necessary.
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What you see with Tony is what you get. He doesn't just talk it and not do it. He talks it and does it. He's a great man. High moral character. High value system and he instills that in his team and the people that work with him.
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We'll talk again. I know their people real well. They're going to stay in touch and we'll see where it goes.
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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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(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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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.
inside
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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Tony would run our coaches out of there to get back to their families when it was getting too late in the night.