Floyd Reese
Floyd Reese
Floyd Reese is a former National Football Leagueexecutive. From 1994 to 2006, he held the position of general manager of the Tennessee Titans. Reese then served as an analyst on ESPN's NFL Live, and as a writer on ESPN.com before joining the New England Patriots as a senior football advisor...
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It's a sensitive topic. If you talk to most pro personnel people, they would rather have the players stay in to get the extra year of maturity.
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He's probably a great example of just what we're looking for in unrestricted free agency. He's young, he's healthy. He's done a lot of things, and maybe most importantly, he's a great guy, classy kid ... and he's coming from a program that's won a lot of games so that's very, very important to us.
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I think you can look at the linebacker position and say this is probably as strong a group as we've had in a while.
work
It's not where we want it to be, but it's not completely off the wall, so we can work with it.
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I was ready to commit suicide. Then the next thing I know, I'm dancing on the table.
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This is not going to happen in the next day or two or week or two. It's going to take time. We'll continue to talk on a daily, weekly basis and see if we can't make progress.
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All along, we have had two plans put together. One if a deal got done and one if it didn't. Plan A and Plan B. Everybody hopes for A, but you made the other one for a reason, I guess.
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But you know what? The system that was put in place years ago works. And it works better than it ever has. There is parity, and this system keeps everybody in it. It's still a bit early this season, but there are two or three teams that look really strong and two or three that are really struggling. Everybody else is in the middle. Last year at this time, we were 2-4 and people were burying us. But we ended up in the AFC title game. Now we're 4-2 and we're scared.
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And I think, certainly, that's what people want to see from anyone who has done what Jeremy has done. How he does when it's all football.
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I don't think I've ever seen this. I've only been doing this for 30 years, and this is the first time the press got an e-mail and the GM didn't.
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Quarterback, the most important position in professional sports. So all you need to do is find one before your career is over.
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The thing, of course, you're afraid of as much as anything right now is him jumping in there and getting a pull or twisting an ankle or something like that ... and that slows him down even more. It's very scary and you have to be careful how you handle it.
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You're so far behind the eight ball before you come in, and then you don't do as well, ... Then your confidence suffers. In some cases, you don't get a guy back until the next year. I think that's a gigantic factor.
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People get a giant misconception about running backs in the NFL,