“It does happen all of the time. And again I think that’s a testament to people’s interest. That whatever we are doing... there are other contract holdouts across the league. Everyone deals with the same issue. We just happen to be on this stage of interest that is more magnified than most.”
“So every little hiccup, every little sneeze is blown up and blown out of proportion and discussed at a level that is probably beyond where most teams experience it.”
“For me as I sit back and look at it. I think we’ve developed, over time, the ability to kind of tune out the noise and just focus on the issue at hand.”
“Obviously everybody wants this to be over with. Everybody wants to just play the game. But there is a part of this that is unavoidable and that’s with any kind of contract negotiation.”
“And I do think that... we have this incredible roster of talent. They’re at a very high level. They are being compensated at a very high level. And at the end of the day you realize that when the pie is gone there’s nothing left. So how you spread that around all of the talent that you have, and at some point that becomes the iceberg that’s right there that is... creates the tension in how you divvy that up.”
“I think it’s just part of the game. I think it’s the business part of the game that fans don’t enjoy. But the ability to feed in and want to be, everybody wants to be a Monday morning quarterback, but they also want to be a Monday morning GM. And they know everything. This is part of it. This is life. This is life in the NFL.”