Gil Brandt
Gil Brandt
Gil Brandtis a former Vice President of player personnel for the Dallas Cowboys from 1960 to 1988. He is a graduate from the University of Wisconsin...
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I would imagine they are getting a reputation as a passing team. And Texas has a reputation now that they can go out and get anybody.
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Maybe, but you have to be able to convince your players that it's harder to get back there the second time. What happens is, during the off-season, the players all of a sudden are in more demand than ever before. They're invited to more golf tournaments, they make more appearances and, all of a sudden, instead of doing all the work in the off-season program, they start missing a few days and they're not as into it the same way they were prior to the year when they got there.
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He didn't work out like a tight end would work out, but he worked out like a defensive or offensive lineman. He's an intriguing guy, a good guy to look at.
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The first place we went was Vienna, and the first player we tried out was Toni Fritsch. He had a hard time speaking English at first, but he did master it.
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Competitiveness is the most important aspect and that's sometimes hard to test. The only measurement you can use at all is something that's relevant to the position he plays. We spend a lot of time and money measuring things that have no relevance to what a player will do.
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My thoughts are that he did such a great job of developing young players, defensive linemen like Ed Jones, Randy White and Harvey Martin, and was kind of the unsung hero of our defense.
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He was a fun-loving Austrian. ...He was well liked by the players because he went out and drank beer with them.
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He impressed everyone with his arm strength, quick delivery and accuracy. Young made great strides today.
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I haven't heard any concern from anybody. He's made a remarkable recovery for a guy that had the problems he did.
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This was in the late 1950s, and we held the draft in Philadelphia because that's where the commissioner, Bert Bell, had his office.
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You can have the talent at one level, but when you get to the next level, it just doesn't happen. It's like the young guy selling insurance. One year, he sells $6 million of life insurance, and then his bosses say, 'Wait until he really learns how to sell.' But then he's got a boat and a country-club membership, and all of a sudden, he's not as good. That's what happens with players.
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Usually they're in the ballpark. Seldom do you have a third-round grade and the guy is picked in the first, and seldom do you have a second-round grade and he's picked in the sixth.
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When you look at the last three games he played at Michigan, you swear this is the No. 1 overall pick. He's got everything you need ? arm strength, mobility, he's bright. But for some reason, he doesn't seem to put it all together. I don't understand it.
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We just don't have the Butkuses, we don't have the Nitschkes. We don't have those kinds of guys playing linebacker anymore.