Fran Foley Quotations

There were no trade discussion talks on Monday. I can tell you that. Those discussions never took place.

At this point, you don't rule anything out. There's good players out there. If there are good players and we have an interest in them, we'll try and get them in here.

I wasn't trying to pull a fast one. To be perfectly honest, I didn't know how (the bio) read.

I think that was the main point we addressed when we came together. I'm talking more myself with Brad, than with Scott. One of the first orders of business we had was to conduct extensive meetings on what exactly it was the coaches wanted for each position. If they had a size, weight or speed requirement for a player, what is it that it would be for every position. And then we communicated that early in February to the scouts so they could do a better job of preparing for this draft.

We have flexibility. The philosophy of a personnel staff would be to take the best player available, regardless of position. If you have that, you will generally draft, in the long run, better.

Part of the plan from the beginning was to take pressure off the draft. The plan is coming together.

To be honest with you, we've talked about really not needing to do anything. We could basically just sit there, take our picks, and we'll be happy.

I think we've been working every day on a number of different issues, different fronts.

His real thing is edge rusher. He's a 4-3 defensive end. He'll be an edge guy for us.

This year, he will lead, because a lot of these coaches and myself, there's no way we could know all (the rookies). There's no way. There's only so much we can do.