65 Quotes by Charley Casserly

The best thing for this football team was to use the first pick in this draft to add a premier player at another position. Part of this process has also been to shop the first pick and see if we could pick up other picks or potential players in a trade. Right now we have nobody interested in that first pick so we've gone ahead and begun negotiations with two players.

It's not because we haven't called people. Monday morning I called teams behind us and I won't tell you who I called or where I stopped, but you can obviously figure I called teams immediately behind us...and there was no interest.

I hope this young man realizes before the draft that he needs to run. Or I hope he's made a deal with a team that's going to take him in the first round.

I'm under contract, and I'm happy to be coming back. Like everyone else, I'm disappointed at what happened this season, but I'm already excited about next season.

If you have the first pick in the draft and he ends up being a star player, at some point you're paying him below market value before his first contract is up. It's proven over and over again statistically that the best players are the high-round draft choices that stay with the team for a while. Obviously, you need a core of star players.

If you're a team, how do you take a running back who doesn't run a 40-yard dash? At some point, you've got to find out how fast somebody is.

If you're a team, how do you take a running back that doesn't run a 40-yard dash? At some point you gotta find out how fast somebody is, so I hope this young man realizes before the draft he needs to run or I hope he has made a deal with a team that's gonna take him in the first round.

I haven't spoken with him yet, but I will.

Being able to take the best players available is the way to have your best draft. Based on what we've been able to do so far, that's the way we're headed right now.