Floyd Reese Players Quotations

It's a sensitive topic. If you talk to most pro personnel people, they would rather have the players stay in to get the extra year of maturity.

Last year, we had seven players leave. Those seven players had a combined 52 playoff games. We've signed four players to date, and those four have 30 playoff games ? a younger, healthier group. I think you can see the direction we're headed.

Now, our team is talented but very young. We lost a number of really good players and it takes time to replace them, if you can. We're working our way through that.

I think all things being equal - speed, size, strength - you're always going to lean toward those players who are more tested,

We will be able to participate in free agency. We will not be a big player. We will be able to participate. The players we have now, we have money pocketed in three or four different places.

Two great attributes for a coach are: one, to be able to teach everybody on the squad, and two, to get players on the squad to play better than they are. Those things are very, very, very difficult to do, and very few in the league can do it.

I've seen players test in single digits and play 10 years, and I've seen some guys test in the 30s that couldn't walk across the street.