Rich McKay Quotes on Time (6 Quotes)

I don't know that the Palmer play was the driving force (for the proposal), but it was certainly a force. Every year, we look at all the injuries. We additionally spent a lot of time this year looking at the quarterback tape and the quarterback injuries. So when a defensive player has an opportunity to avoid, he must take that opportunity to avoid.

Even when we went back and looked to see if there were a lot of obvious playoff caliber teams excluded from the postseason before the eight-division realignment, once we analyzed the numbers, the answer in our opinion was no. So it didn't make any sense to act at this time.

Because of his injury and our current situation, we felt it was in both of our interests to release Brady at this time. In these salary cap times, you cannot ensure that Brady will not be back as a Falcon before the 2006 season.

He looks like one of those guys that will play in the league for a long time. But as soon as you say 'can't miss,' something bad will happen, so I never say it and I won't say it. He does look the part, though. Whoever drafts him is going to be happy.

It got talked about a little bit and I think we'll spend more time on it (next month) in Naples. We didn't spend a lot of time on it here. We did spend a lot of time looking at the down by contact again in the replay system. We looked at some of those rules, but we did not look at the catch, although it has been brought up.

I don't like where we find ourselves. I find us really stuck in mud. You really don't know which way this thing is going to go. So you spend a lot of time evaluating players, you spend a lot of time preparing, but you're preparing on two different paths and you can't begin to execute either one. To me, it's a very unusual time.