I love his defiance. People are so quick to bury him. People can't look past (his age). Only three guys statistically have done it better (Smith, Payton and Sanders). Maybe they should rethink their definition of elite.
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We'll pick up significant cap, because of the suspension without pay. So, there could be other options. We're probably going to make a roster move. Obviously, we have Damien Nash on the roster right now. Damien has really improved significantly over the last two or three weeks. Jarrett Payton is certainly a possibility. We can get Jarrett up he knows the offense. We're going to look around to see if there is more possibilities.
As far away as we are, we are still very close to becoming a good team. When we decided to break this team down last year, letting Antoine (Walker) and Gary (Payton) go, we understood what that would mean. We still hoped to make the playoffs and that's disappointing, but I think this team will be better sooner rather than later.
I've taken a job with the New Orleans Saints as tight end ends coach, and I'll fly to New Orleans to start the job on Monday. The combination of going to the NFL and also to work with Sean Payton is a very exciting opportunity.
It's all a win-now philosophy. We've got some old guys on this team. Gary (Payton) ain't got five, six more years left. Shaq ain't got five, six more years left. That is the reason the trade was made. We'd be kidding ourselves if we thought the trade was for us to grow together for the next three years. No, it's not. We understand that.
Bret comes to us as a highly regarded coach. Garrick has worked with him, as well as Mike Dunbar . He also received some high praise from Sean Payton (New Orleans Saints head coach), who was a part of my staff at Miami, and that meant a lot to me. Everyone is in agreement Bret will be a great fit for our staff. He has the background to do some great things with our offensive line and the offense as a whole.
OAKLAND Top starters Rich Harden and Barry Zito will get an extra day of rest next week. Dan Haren will pitch Tuesday at Detroit and Kirk Saarloos on Wednesday. ... DH-1B Scott Hatteberg has a strained right stomach muscle, though he played Saturday. Manager Ken Macha is considering keeping Hatteberg out of the lineup Sunday and Tuesday, giving him a total of three days to rest with Monday's off day. ... Macha would like to get LHP Ricardo Rincon into a game soon. He hasn't pitched since Monday. ... OF Jay Payton is feeling the best he has at the plate in a long time. He has five homers in his last 11 games, and he homered in consecutive games for the third time since joining the A's on July 13 in a trade with Boston. Right now I feel as good as I ever have, ... A couple of minor things make a world of difference.
He reminds me of Gary Payton when he was in college and how he was a force on the offensive and defensive ends and plays both very hard. He is 6-2, very long and slender and plays with great intensity. He is a heady basketball player.
Once you get into company with Walter Payton, that's saying quite a bit.
It's definitely an honor. Anytime you can have your name mentioned with Walter Payton, I don't care what it is. Just playing here for the Bears, this is the team that he played for, somebody I idolized growing up. That definitely would be a great accomplishment.
Once you get in company with Walter Payton that's saying quite a bit. (It was) an outstanding year by Thomas and our offensive line to get that for him. I think we established that through the course of the regular season we are a good running football team and can run the football on just about anybody we play.
I've written enough books with real celebrities, such as Walter Payton and Hank Aaron and Billy Graham, to know that fame looks good only to people who don't have it.
I got a little girl, she's 4-years-old. Ten years from now, when she asks me about the Chicago Bears, I'll tell her about a championship, and I'll tell her about great teams, and great teammates and great coaches. But the first thing I'll tell her about is Walter Payton.
He told me to get after Gary Payton, to make sure he was fired up.
I've been playing since '93 so that's the game I play the most, ... I make sure I get it every year. It was on Genesis in '93, '94 and '95. That's when you could get Walter Payton you could get Chicago '85, no problem. You couldn't tackle 'Sweetness.'
I'm not saying he's another Walter Payton, but they're a lot alike,