Joe Banner
Joe Banner
Joe Banneris a former front office consultant for the Atlanta Falcons, former chief executive officer of the Cleveland Browns, and former president of the Philadelphia Eagles...
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The beauty of having cap room is you have flexibility. You make your moves based solely on the best interests of the football team. When you don't have cap flexibility, sometimes you have to make moves based on the cap. Whether it's at the end of training camp with cuts, or pursuing free agents, we've always had the opportunity to do what's best for the team.
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Brian is a valuable and important part of the team. We've made it clear we want him here, and he's also made it clear he wants to stay. Hopefully, at the right time, we can get a deal done with him.
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I have no problem with anything Brian said. We are already convinced Brian's a very good player and a very valuable member of our team. He wants to be here and we still want him here and we remain optimistic it will work out.
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Our hope, obviously, is that he comes back next week and is what he can be in every sense, whether that's how he contributes to the team on the field or off the field,
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Andy will basically figure out where we go from here, ... He indicated to T. O. that he'd talk to him later this week and give him a more definitive status report.
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The next priority is to extend as many players as we can during the season.
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Does this make us a better team? If the answer is yes, then we make the move. If the answer is no, we don?t.
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This is an effort to set a positive tone as we move forward,
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He still wants to be here, we still want him to be here, and in the end we think it will have a positive (resolution).
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I think there's a long list of things, some of which you know about and some of which aren't public, but it was a culmination of things.
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I think a lot of people, including myself, do and say a lot of things in the context of negotiations that tend to go away and be forgotten,
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There was a need to reinforce that we needed to stay aggressive. We were aggressive in the Terrell Owens thing, and you don't want that to slow you down when the next situation shows up. Our belief is that teams that have significant success are those that aren't afraid of making mistakes or taking chances.
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Certainly this will help knock that down quite a bit.
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It is patently irresponsible in this day and age to question the motives behind a policy driven by and recommended by security experts,