Rich McKay
Rich McKay
Rich McKayis the president, CEO, and former general manager of the Atlanta Falcons of the National Football League. He was the general manager of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers when they won Super Bowl XXXVII...
changing entire outlook quantum
I think 16 would be a quantum leap, where you're changing the entire outlook of the NFL,
drew win
I think Drew would look back at that and tell you it was a mistake. I know Errict probably would. And that doesn't say it was a win for the Buccaneers. It wasn't.
longest
Seventy-six? Seventy-six was the longest 17 years of my life,
bottom cap change developed good happened job line players reason salary system
The bottom line in this system is you've got to do a good job in the draft, because those players are the inexpensive players that can be developed and you can retain. I think it's an oversimplification to say that the salary cap is the reason for all the change that has happened in the league.
instant open penalties proposal remember replay sought
I don't remember a proposal on instant replay that sought to open up all penalties for review.
point
At some point there has to be a line.
bowl calls driven hard mike needs super time works
I think Mike works hard and has a lot of responsibilities. They went to the Super Bowl this year, and I think he needs a little time off. I didn't think it was driven by the calls on Super Bowl Sunday, I really didn't.
additional again creating game good playing puts regular season seed sell value week
It addresses the bye issue, but then again it puts the No. 8 seed playing the No. 1 seed in Week 1 of the playoffs. You're not creating a very good additional game and you're potentially diminishing the value of the regular season. And that's the No. 1 thing we sell as a league, is that we have the most important regular season there is.
green holiday inn remember sitting wherever
Because I remember Saturdays sitting in my dad's room, and we'd be at the one-story Holiday Inn in Green Bay, or wherever we were, saying, 'It's going to be ugly.'
cannot change communication player propose system team
The team can designate one player on defense, and that player cannot change during the game. And if that player were to be injured, then that would be the end of that communication for that game, for that team. The system will not be designed, the way we propose it, to be put on more than one player.
certainly driving palmer
I don't know that the Palmer play was the driving force, but it was certainly a force.
active begin less load love room sure teams therefore
I'm sure there are teams that have room and therefore will be active but I think there will be less activity. There are a lot of teams that won't have room. We'd love to front-load, back-load, do-whatever load but we can't begin to load. We don't have any place to put it.
balance conference happy obviously quite seed six time
That's the first time that ever happened, obviously, and also the first time that a six seed has made it to the conference championship game. So that was quite an accomplishment, and something we're obviously happy to see from a balance of competition.
accuse assume borrowing defense good helps offense stealing
It helps the defense in a sense - I don't want to accuse the offense of stealing signals, let's just assume they're borrowing the signals. We think it would be good to give the defense that ability.