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...
coverage focus media totally ups
You focus nothing on the media coverage of the ups and downs. You make your own evaluation. It's totally ignored.
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Jay did a nice job for us, ... You can't keep everybody in this system. He got hurt at the end of last year. So we decided to move on, and that's it.
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We don't have a cap problem. But, obviously, our activity in free agency would be significantly affected by whether there's a deal or not.
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We had made progress in each of our first three years, and we had a better team coming back this year. But the injuries to key people have really hurt.
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I think if people had just listened to what we had said, they would have seen that we were serious about Mario Williams. Once we brought him in here our statements never changed that we were seriously considering him for the first pick in the draft and I understand that people didn't believe it, but we always said it and we believed it.
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I think it will probably be April before this thing gets serious.
asked comparable people
People have asked me to think of a comparable situation. I can't think of one.
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Mario Williams is a better fit for us. It was strictly about a football decision.
good inaccurate report
I was told that's an inaccurate report from a very good source.
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The player is one of the better receivers in the league. He got market. Obviously, everyone knows the issues with the guy, but if he goes out and plays on the field and shows up every day, he is one of the top receivers in football.
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We didn't feel it was appropriate for him to be playing for the league minimum. This shows that if a player comes in and performs better than expected, we're willing to tear up the contract and pay him what he's worth. This puts him up there with the good starting running backs in the league.
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We asked him and his attorney the different allegations and both of the denied them. Both of them said that Reggie didn't do anything wrong so we obviously took him at his word which is what we should do. But none of that had anything to do with that. We told them this was strictly a football decision. We wanted to get a defensive end.
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We arrived at this decision a short time back that these are the two players that we would pick from to make our first round pick.
given indication
We've been given no indication of anything changing.