Floyd Reese Quotes on Time (8 Quotes)

We're trying to standardize everything we're doing as much as possible so that at some point in time we'll be able to evaluate.

But you know what The system that was put in place years ago works. And it works better than it ever has. There is parity, and this system keeps everybody in it. It's still a bit early this season, but there are two or three teams that look really strong and two or three that are really struggling. Everybody else is in the middle. Last year at this time, we were 2-4 and people were burying us. But we ended up in the AFC title game. Now we're 4-2 and we're scared.

This is not going to happen in the next day or two or week or two. It's going to take time. We'll continue to talk on a daily, weekly basis and see if we can't make progress.

If both sides are realistic, then that rookie deal gets done, ... We know how important it is to get a rookie to camp in time. We know you can't make up 35 practices overnight.

What happens is in camp you can go five days and get in eight or nine practices, ... During the regular season, you might get in 212 practices in five days. What you miss in camp, it takes weeks to make up that time.

We talked about the plan last year. We went through it. We had a tough time. We purged. We got past that. We said this year we would be 100 percent better off. We are 100 percent better off.

They've dealt with hoopla for three, four years. You know, at least some of the time, a little better maybe, what you're going to have when you get a guy in your program.

We were still good enough that we decided let's give it another shot. But we got to this year and said it's time. Rather than try to tippy-toe our way through it, we just took it all in one big shot.