Obviously, you're always wishing you could go out and sign a Reggie White, but those players don't make it to free agency anymore, ... So you kind of do what you can and outside of that you work hard and get everybody on the same page with the defensive coordinator. And hope it all works.
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He goes out there everyday. That helps your cause when it comes down to who's going to be on your team. A lot of times that's underrated in the public's eyes.Ted Thompson
He's smart, and offensive coaches like to have smart guys that know what they're doing, can pick up things, can react in the heat of battle. And Will seems to have an ability to handle the chaos that's involved in an NFL game.
Ted Thompson
Rather than just putting another guy on the team, we're trying to make sure whoever we add will add something. We'll eventually find somebody. It may not be at (wide receiver).
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You'd like to have three or four deep at each position, and a Pro Bowl player on the first team and a backup Pro Bowl player on the second team and so forth. It's just, there's not that many the good Lord didn't make that many good tackles in the world.
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I have some ideas. Cullen Jenkins is a good player. If he becomes one of our core guys you'd like to make sure you can have him beyond the length of his contract.
Ted Thompson
For me personally, the last 10 days have been a very difficult time for me.
Ted Thompson
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