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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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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We are going to have to see what happens throughout the year. We are already convinced that Brian is a very good football player and a very valuable member of our team. Hopefully at some point, we can translate that into a contract that we both feel comfortable with.
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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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We want Brian to be here. We recognize him as an important part of this team, a quality person. I think Brian recognizes that this is a great situation for him. I think he recognizes that this system probably matches up to his own strengths and weaknesses better than any other system out there. So I think that in the long run, because we both have that mind-set about it, we'll find a way to get it done. I hope it's in the short run.
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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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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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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.