Ozzie Newsome Quotes

You have to look at it in three different phases. - Ozzie Newsome

Yes, we could be enticed to move that pick before we get to the 13th. Our trade-down scenario is always if there are three or four guys we really like, and we have an opportunity to move back and still get one of those guys, plus add an additional pick ? again, from an organizational standpoint, that is the right thing to do. - Ozzie Newsome

Yes, it did. But I was not able to get a hold of Joel. - Ozzie Newsome

We've talked about it ever since that New England-Oakland game... That year, it was probably the biggest topic of the committee and the biggest topic in our presentation to the owners. But it's one thing to think you need to change it, and another thing entirely to change it in a way that it actually can be officiated. - Ozzie Newsome

We're in the middle of proposals at this point. We want to have something done by the time I get on the plane Thursday [for Indianapolis and the NFL Scouting Combine]. But we don't know anything yet. - Ozzie Newsome

We will still consider the possibility of talking to Jamal about a long-term contract with us. - Ozzie Newsome

We felt like we were cheating time a little bit right there. We knew we were putting ourselves in this position in 2002, but we had to take our shot at winning back-to-back. We could have done half of this cap-cutting last year, and it wouldn't have been this painful, but I don't think we would have had a real shot to get to the Super Bowl this season. - Ozzie Newsome

We dominated people from a personnel standpoint back then. - Ozzie Newsome

We did a legitimate cap-friendly deal with a low cap number in the first year ($1.5 million)... We got the guy we wanted and it's a five-year deal. It's the same kind of option deals that we have with Ray Lewis , Michael McCrary and Jermaine Lewis . ... We just have had to structure some deals that way for cap reasons. - Ozzie Newsome

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