Gil Brandt Guys Quotations

Leaf got the big contract and that was his utopia - he didn't want to work for anything else. That's what makes this so hard: You don't know how guys are going to respond to financial success, if they will still work hard. If you knew that, you wouldn't have so many busts.

Historically we do not draft safeties high. So many guys that stay that extra year bear out so much better.

We just don't have the Butkuses, we don't have the Nitschkes. We don't have those kinds of guys playing linebacker anymore.

They missed the boat initially, but the guys have made up lost ground. They went from being not the greatest to very efficient.

They're all pretty good players, but they aren't great players. That tells you Mack Brown is a pretty good coach, because they were able to win a national championship with just two guys who will be picked in the first round.

It's like a golf tournament where a bunch of guys are 10 handicappers and a few guys are zero handicappers. Thomas is a zero handicapper.