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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This is probably going to be as big a contract as we've ever done, just from sheer volume.
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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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Thank goodness we're not where we were last year or the year before. Because it has to be a very, very scary situation to be way over the cap right now and trying to redo contracts and get your money right, and yet you're not exactly sure what effect the CBA is going to have on it. But that's our world and that's the way we have to live it.
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He threw the ball well. I think you saw a variety of things. He threw the ball on the run and under a little bit less than ideal conditions. He came today and performed, and I can't imagine too many quarterbacks performing better than he did today.
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If there is a regret, it's that we didn't win the world championship,
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It's kind of a sad place. It's just such a zoo that you almost can't get anything done. There's always somebody knocking on your door or calling you on the phone or stopping you in the lobby because they are desperate for jobs.
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Two great attributes for a coach are: one, to be able to teach everybody on the squad, and two, to get players on the squad to play better than they are. Those things are very, very, very difficult to do, and very few in the league can do it.
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We've had a premise and a game plan for that set aside all along in our plans -- a Plan A, Plan B, Plan C type of thing -- so we've been able to work through it.
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We were thrilled to death to have an opportunity to get him back. So it worked out well. It's a plus-plus, and we're awful happy.
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We will be able to participate in free agency. We will not be a big player. We will be able to participate. The players we have now, we have money pocketed in three or four different places.
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What happens is in camp you can go five days and get in eight or nine practices, ... During the regular season, you might get in 21/2 practices in five days. What you miss in camp, it takes weeks to make up that time.
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We were still good enough that we decided let's give it another shot. But we got to this year and said it's time. Rather than try to tippy-toe our way through it, we just took it all in one big shot.
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We pushed the envelope for a number of years there, trying to win as many games as we could. And we won a bunch of them.