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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What we see happening is exactly what he said was going to happen. It kind of puts you in a hard position to then have any kind of deniability. You can try to blame other people if he wants, but it's a little bit of a stretch in credibility in light of what he said before he got here.
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What we see happening is exactly what he said was going to happen, ... It kind of puts you in a hard position to then have any kind of deniability. You can try to blame other people if he wants, but it's a little bit of a stretch in credibility in light of what he said before he got here.
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I don't get it. He was so happy. He's a guy who by his own description had a tough time in life finding a place that felt right, finding a peace of mind and finding a place where he felt appreciated. And he was very, very verbal in feeling that he had found that in Philadelphia. And not just publicly, but privately with us. If you sought that for so long, why not enjoy it for a bit and take the ride? I wish there was something more to all of this, but I don't know what it would be.
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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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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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Otherwise, there's no foundation to the business, no foundation for knowing where we stand.
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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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I think everybody knows that we have this Monday deadline that I think helps a little bit. But we have been working diligently in the last week to try to get something done. And we have tried to approach this since last summer. And there was a very strong drive on both sides to compromise and to be as reasonable as we could to try to get it done. He (Westbrook) clearly wanted to be here. We clearly wanted him to be here. The system is perfect for him and he is perfect for the system. So in the end we were able to get it done.
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We didn't expect him to come in here with the biggest smile on his face in training camp. We understood that. But we thought we knew him well enough to know that he's such a prideful guy, such a competitive guy, that once he got here, we'd have a guy working as hard as he's always worked.
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You don?t really hit everything in free agency. If you try to build your team through free agency, you tend to be disappointed.
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wanted to make sure there was no ambiguity regarding the things we weren't happy about.
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There is no question he's a vital part of our team and we have always maintained a strong desire to get a deal done with Brian.
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Whenever we have cap room, it is spent in these ways, in this priority. First, we spend it on anybody who can help this year's team in any way.
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I don't know what's going to happen two, three, four years from now, if we're still here,