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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I think rightly or wrongly from my standpoint, you like to see someone who has been through it. When you get through the postseason, it's a different world. If you've never been there, it's a learning curve. You have to learn and understand it. If someone has been through it on several occasions or just once, they step in with some advantage.
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I think all things being equal - speed, size, strength - you're always going to lean toward those players who are more tested,
element key top
It has always been a key element for us. We have never wavered from Day One. It's always been at the top of our list.
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Kevin has been extremely durable just year after year. Kevin is one of those guys who understands what winning is and knows how to win and can help everybody along that way.
gets surprised veteran
I wouldn't be surprised if (Edwards), a veteran guy, gets gobbled up at some point,
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I think right now we have to call it a draw. Is that a surprise?
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It doesn't mean that we hit on 100 percent, that doesn't mean that every guy that enters the locker room is an angel. But that doesn't cause you to waver from the fact that you still deem it important, and you still look for it and you fight to get it.
knew pay time won
We didn't get the only thing that matters, the ring, but we won some games. The whole time we knew we'd have to pay the piper.
point possible time trying
We're trying to standardize everything we're doing as much as possible so that at some point in time we'll be able to evaluate.
decided good rather took year
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.
dance exciting invited playoffs taking year
We know it can't go on forever, that's obvious. But I think as long as you have the quarterback that we have, you've got a chance. The real exciting part is that if you keep getting invited to the dance every year, then at least you've got a chance. We've got to just keep making the playoffs every year and keep taking our shot.
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We're kind of waiting on a counter from them. We're still way early in the negotiations. We're just getting started. It's just a matter of trying to find some common ground and going to work on that common ground.
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If (agent Carl) Poston comes and says, 'Hey, my guy is in love with your team and he wants to play for the minimum,' then things might be different.
press seen time
I don't think I've ever seen this. So this one's kind of new. I've only been doing this for 30 years, and this is the first time the press got an e-mail and the G.M. didn't.