Bill Polian Quotations

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We're 15 weeks into a 17-week season, and nothing has been decided yet. These guys have heard me say since June that this is going 17 weeks, and that's what it's going to do. It doesn't matter what you did today. If you won, enjoy it, but then it's back to the grindstone tomorrow. That's where the AFC is at this year.

We have room for some contingencies, but when you count all the (projected) expenditures we don't have a lot of room.

We re-signed Dominic knowing full well that he could contribute at a high level. Dominic Rhodes is our starting running back. Whoever we add is going to be a contributor. He's going to have to go through something to beat Dominic. If he beats out Dominic, we got a heck of a player.

Obviously, we are glad to have Adam here, we know he'll do a great job for us. He had a great career in New England and we hope he has a great career here.

If we come to Wednesday with no agreement, it will be a different market.

He watched all of it and said it helped him to root the team on. He wanted the players to know how proud he was of their effort.

Had we had a different system, I'm sure we would have gone through contraction just as baseball has done. Certainly Indianapolis and Buffalo and Green Bay, if they existed, would be somewhere else.

He'll probably elect to go somewhere else, so that's probably a position we'll have to fill.

We traded up to get him because Tony, because we all knew what he could be, ... We all understand the blueprint now. It's not hard. It's fun.

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.

I think there was the feeling that he was going back to the Patriots .

We need a deal because the competitive balance that exists in this league is directly related to the fact that we have a salary cap. For the long-term future and health of the league, it would be great to have a deal.

We hope he has 10 good years here. We know he's going to do a great job for us.

We have the greatest role model there is in Tony Dungy. And as Jim said to the team (Thursday) morning, we'll emulate our leader.

The quarterback wasn't the problem on Sunday. You don't know football well enough to know where to place the blame.

We presumed after such a long time in New England and two franchise designations that they'd reach a long-term agreement and he'd go finish his career there. I don't think very many people around the league had heard anything to suggest the contrary.

When you draft a guy and you see him develop and you watch him grow and he becomes a really good player, you clearly don't want to let him go. But that's the system.

We've got to find out from the powers-that-be . . . where he is with respect to the program and with respect to the progress he's made in the program. If he's made significant progress, he's a guy we'd like to have back. If he hasn't, he won't be back.

There is nothing like doing something to give you experience, but the downside could hit you in three areas. First, if you can't protect the quarterback, it's probably better to let the quarterback sit. Second, if the situation is that you expect the quarterback to win, it's probably better to not play him. Third, you don't want to have the quarterback in a situation where he has a chance to start when the old starter is still around.

Tony made it clear to myself and Jim that he wished for the team and organization to carry on. We will.

(We have to) decide what we're going to do in terms of applying the franchise tag, if such is the case, how much money we're going to have to spend. And all of that is really in suspended animation because of the lack of a collective bargaining agreement.

The public profile is always the first round. You've got three quarterbacks that every guru puts in the top 10. That makes it interesting.

We are going to be resolved to get this worked out, we are going to be resolved to be better a football team next year and we are going to be resolved to be a better playoff team next year.

Bill Walsh was an offensive coordinator; Joe Gibbs was an offensive coordinator; your former coach (Martz) was an offensive coordinator. It's just the current trend.

These rules are quite restrictive. They limit creativity in contract construction quite severely.

The thoughts and prayers of everyone in this building are with Tony and (wife) Lauren, their children and their extended family, and for the repose of James' soul. This is a tragedy for the Dungy family and by extension for his football family here with the Colts.

Our thoughts and prayers from everyone in this building are with Tony, (his wife) Lauren, their children, their extended family and the repose of James' soul. This is a tragedy for the Dungy family and by extension for his football family here at the Colts.

People say we've got to find a a guy who can run it up in there, and maybe we do. The bottom line is we've got to be a better goal-line running team and a better red-zone running team.

They're both good tacklers, and they pack a wallop.

At least in the AFC, and that's what I'm familiar with, the competition is so close that the slightest little thing can tip the balance.

It's a small increment but it makes a difference. It might be enough to keep a Mike Peterson as opposed to losing him. It might be enough to keep a Marcus Washington as opposed to losing him.

It's normal, very normal. There's nothing here that's unexpected.

It's a pleasure coming to work every day. It's fun because (Dungy) makes it that way.

Dominic's done it for us in the past.

The offensive line was the problem Sunday, plain and simple.

That has not been fleshed out yet. The future is uncharted at this point, but having said that, we've always found a way to make it work and hopefully we will in the future.

It was not easy, and it was somber, to say the least.

That's been the history of it, I can't deny that.

That's a theory that holds about as much water as my thumbnail. But it's out there. And who cares about it? I don't.

I'm going to talk to Drew this week and see where Edge is right now, so I'd say it's probably 50-50. But that's an uneducated guess because I haven't spoken with Drew.

I hope this is one place he can find some peace and consolation.

In terms of our kicking game this spring, I think it's pivotal that we get two or three specialists to step up and really take the bull by the horns and take one of those jobs. Having to replace D.J., you know, yeah, that's not an ideal situation to have one guy doing both and now he's gone, but we feel confident that there are guys in this program that will step up and win one of those jobs.

He said the three hours he spent watching were the best break he could have. He wanted the players to know how proud he was of the effort they made.

I don't think there was an iota of difference from top to bottom among those eight or seven. The last three years, it's been so competitive that just the slightest little blip on the radar screen can cause you to turn over.