40 Quotes by Joe Banner

It may not be acceptable to him, but it was a significant offer. I think the level of disrespect, if there is any, is pretty minor.

Does this make us a better team? If the answer is yes, then we make the move. If the answer is no, we don?t.

The next priority is to extend as many players as we can during the season.

The beauty of having cap room is you have flexibility. You make your moves based solely on the best interests of the football team. When you don't have cap flexibility, sometimes you have to make moves based on the cap. Whether it's at the end of training camp with cuts, or pursuing free agents, we've always had the opportunity to do what's best for the team.

There was a need to reinforce that we needed to stay aggressive. We were aggressive in the Terrell Owens thing, and you don't want that to slow you down when the next situation shows up. Our belief is that teams that have significant success are those that aren't afraid of making mistakes or taking chances.

After that, we push as much money into next year's salary cap. Our first priority with that money is that we want to sign our players, and the second priority is it allows us to be active in the free-agent market.

I?m not going to get into any figures. But it?s quite significant. And obviously we voted for it because it was in the best interest of the league to vote yes.

I made sure I was in the best shape possible. I wasn't the guy who got tired in the Super Bowl.

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.