Free-agent defensive end Courtney Brown took a physical, which was expected to determine whether Washington would offer him a contract. We're still interested, ... I don't think there's anything imminent.
Quotes about free-agent (15 Quotes)
It was not an optimum year for it. The free-agent pool was not deep where we needed it. But it was good at the very top and we do feel we siphoned off some of that when we signed Jarrod.
We were planning on the lowest figures projected. This delay doesn't affect us. It just delays your chance to start looking at free-agent players.
A team has money invested in you. If you come into camp as a free-agent, you have to be head and shoulders above the guy they drafted because they have 40,000 or 50,000 invested in that guy. I know I'm not a sure-fire draft pick. When I get my opportunity, whatever it is, I'll make the best of it.
Surely, these two did not just meet at training camp. Surely, they go back further than the free-agent signing period. I'd say we're more like family, ... I'd say we're like brothers.
This is definitely a big step. I knew our team was going to get better this year, with or without Adam Foote. Now, with the free-agent market, we get a guy like Adam. He will push our players to be better and they're going to compete hard every night.
I made one last call to agent Craig Landis on Tuesday, and obviously we had gone down some roads to see what our options were and Jon stepped up. He made a statement about who he is about. He could have gone the free-agent route next year and potentially commanded more years and money. This shows that was less of a concern than him wanting to be here.
There's a sense of urgency surrounding defending NFC West champion San Francisco. Owens's potential free-agent departure -- the outspoken star may be too expensive for York's cost-conscious tastes -- is one more reason for the 49ers to force the issue in
That's what makes this season so important in Tampa Bay. The Devil Rays need to start strong and hope for a boost in attendance from the league-low 13,070 average of last season. They need the extra revenue to chase after quality pitching next winter. This year we divided our free-agent spending among a lot of low-cost players, ... Next year we hope to be able to take a little more money and maybe try to sign two or three players who could really help us immediately.
Adam was willing to commit one of those free-agent years to the Reds, and not to any other team.
We'll look at free agency, but I'm still trying to find where big free-agent signings can help the team. There's certainly no magic wand to wave and the team gets instantly better, but I like the way we're playing and I like the way the players have responded to our coach.
It's definitely unusual. We heard about that from a lot of people. They congratulated us. Usually, you have one maybe that makes a team. But to have a rookie free-agent class like this is special. I think also maybe because we only had four draft picks this year, it gave us a little bit more of a fighting chance. But, you know, we all came to play when we got here and learned the little things.
SOLID CHOICE A.J. Burnett might have finished on poor terms with Jack McKeon, but former Marlins manager Jeff Torborg remains a big believer in the free-agent pitcher. I really like him, ... He'll give you everything he's got. He's a different kind of guy, the kind you'll see out on a motorcycle with his nipple rings and all that. But he's really a good boy. He'll do nothing but get better. I don't know where A.J. is going to go, but I do know one thing Whoever gets him is getting one heck of a pitcher.
I remember my first year, obviously I'm a free-agent nobody and one of the last guys in the receiver line, and he was always paying particular attention to me, making sure my details were right and giving me positive feedback. A guy like Jack Snow - you're going to miss him.
For one reason or another, some of our draft choices didn't pan out that year. But some of these other free-agent guys did. In some cases, we kept the free agents over the draft choices. We could have kept the draft picks just to save face. But we really