Drafting Quotes

You're not going to be able to keep everyone, and we've understood that as part of this system. I think a lot of it goes with keeping a good nucleus, drafting well and adding some key free agents, signing some of these guys back and selling them on the atmosphere we have. It's a very positive one. - Bill Cowher

You'd have to take a close look [before drafting him in the top 10] because sometimes workouts don't translate into performance on the field. But for a combination of blocking and pass-catching, he seems pretty close to can't-miss. - Ron Turner

You can?t create players. You have to draft the board based on what your options are. As soon as you start taking players truly based on need, if they can?t fill that need, then you have to come back the next year or the next pick and you?re drafting again for the same spot and you haven?t filled anything other than putting a name on a piece of cardboard and putting it up on the depth chart. - Bill Belichick

Will get extended for a least a year. It's something that's been agreed to, and now it's just a matter of drafting (the contract). - John Shaw

Who wouldn't want to go in the first round? But I think sometimes I did look at it like they put all that into me, into drafting me that high that there must be a level they expect me to play at right away. It was kind of new, trying to do too much, but I'm getting over that pressure and just playing. - Colby Rasmus

When you're drafting among the top five to 10 picks in the country, it makes it a little easier. You can really zero in on players. Our draft picks won't be so high. That's a challenge. - Doug Melvin

When picking fourth, you know from day one he?s going to be a starter. Drafting later, that guy might not jump off the board 100 percent of the time. - Marvin Lewis

What we've tried to do is minimize the damage (from) a system which at its core is designed to penalize good drafting teams. I think we've minimized the damage as much as we can. - Bill Polian

We've struggled up to this point a little bit. None of the Bill Davis cars qualified as fast as we thought they could or should. We weren't all that happy with it in the first drafting practice. We need to gain a good bit more. - Dave Blaney