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We pushed the envelope for a number of years there, trying to win as many games as we could. And we won a bunch of them.

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I don't think I've ever seen this. I've only been doing this for 30 years, and this is the first time the press got an e-mail and the GM didn't.

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It has to be a very, very scary situation to be way over the cap and trying to redo contracts and get your money right, and yet you're not exactly sure what effect the CBA is going to have on it. But that's our world, and that's the way we have to live it.

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We didn't want to have to go into the draft trying to hit 10 different spots. We had hand-selected a group of guys that we thought if we could get one or two, we'd be in great shape. We've ended up with four.

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It doesn't mean that we hit on 100 percent, that doesn't mean that every guy that enters the locker room is an angel. But that doesn't cause you to waver from the fact that you still deem it important, and you still look for it and you fight to get it.

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I don't think I've ever seen this. So this one's kind of new. I've only been doing this for 30 years, and this is the first time the press got an e-mail and the G.M. didn't.

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He's one of those eight or 10 guys that you know you could draft and he could come into your franchise and carry the ball 20-30 times a week for a lot of years. It wouldn't matter if you went to Slippery Rock or any place else as talented as he is. Those things stick out.

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We're of course prepared to live with that cap number. If that has to be the case and if we have to, we will. But we'd prefer to lower it.

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The thing, of course, you're afraid of as much as anything right now is him jumping in there and getting a pull or twisting an ankle or something like that ... and that slows him down even more. It's very scary and you have to be careful how you handle it.

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Thank goodness we're not where we were last year or the year before. Because it has to be a very, very scary situation to be way over the cap right now and trying to redo contracts and get your money right, and yet you're not exactly sure what effect the CBA is going to have on it. But that's our world and that's the way we have to live it.

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The old contracts we would do with somebody along these lines. You would say, 'OK, I'll give you a 10 million signing bonus, and then the minimum salary the first year and maybe the second year, and then later on in the contract really jack the salaries up.' Now, because of the 30 percent rule, you really can't do that.

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All along, we have had two plans put together. One if a deal got done and one if it didn't. Plan A and Plan B. Everybody hopes for A, but you made the other one for a reason, I guess.

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You're so far behind the eight ball before you come in, and then you don't do as well, ... Then your confidence suffers. In some cases, you don't get a guy back until the next year. I think that's a gigantic factor.

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We talked about the plan last year. We went through it. We had a tough time. We purged. We got past that. We said this year we would be 100 percent better off. We are 100 percent better off.

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We've had a premise and a game plan for that set aside all along in our plans -- a Plan A, Plan B, Plan C type of thing -- so we've been able to work through it.

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This is probably going to be as big a contract as we've ever done, just from sheer volume.

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He was always a half a step ahead of everybody else.

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There is no doubt we're much better with Albert in there, ... Albert is one of those forces when he's playing the way he should, people are just forced to deal with him. Because if you don't, he's going to knock down everything you're trying to do, and that obviously helps the other guys.

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The cap number is much bigger than we'd like to live with. It would help if we extend his contract, and it also helps us get more players. He will for sure be a Titan for another year, and then hopefully more after that.

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We were thrilled to death to have an opportunity to get him back. So it worked out well. It's a plus-plus, and we're awful happy.

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It's kind of a sad place. It's just such a zoo that you almost can't get anything done. There's always somebody knocking on your door or calling you on the phone or stopping you in the lobby because they are desperate for jobs.

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If both sides are realistic, then that rookie deal gets done, ... We know how important it is to get a rookie to camp in time. We know you can't make up 35 practices overnight.

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We're kind of waiting on a counter from them. We're still way early in the negotiations. We're just getting started. It's just a matter of trying to find some common ground and going to work on that common ground.

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We will be able to participate in free agency. We will not be a big player. We will be able to participate. The players we have now, we have money pocketed in three or four different places.

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It's not unusual at all to go to any major college in the country and every offensive linemen will have knee braces on both knees, ... They've been wearing them for years and years.

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