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...
adds along brings certainly character defensive discipline great locker numbers proud room team throughout work
We're just so proud of what he's accomplished. Not his numbers -- I mean, the sacks are great and everything -- but the character that he brings to our locker room, the discipline and the preparation and the work ethic. And that permeates throughout the locker room -- certainly along the defensive line -- and it adds to what this team has done.
great high moral people system talk talks team tony value work
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.
detective interviews visit visits work
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.
football tried works
I know it works -- it's tried and true, not only in football but in business.
became defense group leader period proud short unified
We're so proud of what he's done. He really unified this group and became the quarterback of this group and the leader of this defense in a short period of time. My hat's off to him.
harm ken slow
We're going to take it slow and see how Ken goes. There's still more testing. We would never want to do anything that would harm him as we go forward.
across bought deserve drive enjoy job leaning line people playing rest road step team
The people who step across the line and get the job done deserve the credit. They enjoy playing with each other, they have each other's back, and they've really bought into the team concept. You drive down a road and see a road crew, two of them are working and the rest are leaning on their shovels? I lean on a shovel.
assess definitive game maybe
We're still in the checking-it-out stage. We want to get through a scrimmage, maybe a game or two and then assess it. ... It's too early. You can't make any definitive judgments.
everybody hunch knew picked
We knew when we picked him that he was going to come here, and everybody was going to want him to succeed. We had that kind of consensus. We had a hunch on him as well.
fitting higher people
We're higher than I would like. But with a transition, you're going to get this. People who aren't fitting are not going to be here.
battle believed defensive guy rod win
Rod didn't want the 6-6 defensive tackles, ... He wanted the undersized guy who could leverage. He really believed in that, that if you can win the battle of pads, you can get off and make plays.
built camp early felt good training
It felt good early on, it really did. And we just built on it in training camp and into the season.
job people round second
I think people do a better job in the second round because the pressure's off.
five obviously plays reasonably six
I think they have five or six plays that he could reasonably go out there and do. We'll see him on the returns. He's obviously in the crash-course mode.