Charley Casserly
Charley Casserly
Charley Casserly is an American football sportscaster and former executive. Casserly was the general manager of the National Football League's Washington Redskins from 1989 to 1999. He served as Senior Vice President & General Manager, Football Operations, for the Houston Texans from 2000 to 2006. He currently works for NFL Network...
anybody best cares counts decision eliminate games influences outside score side win
When you're on this side of the table, the only thing that counts is winning. You've got to do what you think is the best way to win, so you've got to eliminate all of those outside influences ... because at the end of the day all anybody cares about is the score on Sunday. We didn't think it was the right decision to win the most games for us.
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We're going to take the best player available. We have enough needs. We did a good job I thought in free agency. But we still have areas where we can use depth. It won't be hard for players that we pick to come in and contribute this year.
offers value
We're going to get offers for this pick. We've already had discussions with teams. I think there's value in our pick.
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His rehab from the knee has gone along excellent, ... He's running now, and we'll continue to monitor the situation.
believe younger
We're probably younger than we have been, but we still believe we have made improvements.
acquired agency free good pleased reason targeted
We're pleased to have acquired him. The reason we targeted him on the first day of free agency was because we thought he was a good young talent.
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I have him rated higher than Peppers. If Reggie Bush wasn't in this draft, Mario Williams would be head and shoulders the first pick.
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He's a great athlete who's been very productive. He's a tremendous runner. The thing he's got going is that leadership and competitiveness.
bottom coming knee line player
He's coming off a knee injury, but the bottom line is he's going to be here and he's going to play, so you've got a player already there that's proven.
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This was a football decision. It's harder to find a defensive end than running backs. When we looked at our team, we've got to get better on offense, but we've got to get better on defense, too. In eight games, we lost the lead in the second half because we couldn't rush the passer.
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We're very happy to have Eric with us. He gives us a proven receiver to go along with Andre Johnson. Now we can line up and we have two first class wide receivers and we feel very fortunate about that.
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You focus nothing on the media coverage of the ups and downs. You make your own evaluation. It's totally ignored.
guessing humans infallible
We all know this is a guessing game. It's humans evaluating humans, and you know what? We're not infallible, and they're not infallible either. If there's one thing you can say about those of us who do this for a living, it's that we know we don't know.
class couple hours interview spent
We spent a couple of hours with him, and you get a little more read on his personality, more than a 15-minute interview in Indianapolis. I think he's a class individual, well-spoken, genuine.