Herm Edwards Quotes

If we don't need the players who are available to sign, then why are we going to sign?

It's weird watching games and being apart from it but seeing teams that could use you in certain situations. You see where you could help different clubs in different ways.

I think a lot of personnel decisions come down to who's the best player today, like if we had to throw 'em in a game today versus what could their upside be 18 months from now. A lot of times, those are two different answers. That's the difficulty of player personnel.

The type of athletes we draft still need types of versatility on the defense side of the ball, run the offense. You should still be concerned on the offense side of the ball.

Namely the manager will assess what he believes a player is worth and he will discuss that with the board and then we will go after that target. If we can achieve it at that target, great, but if we can't we will have to move on to the next player.

We feel good about our running backs as we have them right now, and we will continue to see how they progress.

I've always thought that having an attractive free agent is better than a guy who was picked in the seventh round.

Nobody wants to give up good players.

I think there's always enough right in front of me worrying about who's playing the minutes tomorrow, but you've always got to have an eye on a year or two from now and what those guys will do if you think, 'Well, let's give them a full year at the 905 and see how they progress.'

It's hard to change a roster around. You've got to hit your draft picks right, you've gotta hit free agency right, and a team's got to fit together.

If you identify those guys - something we have done in the past - who are not as valued in the current market for whatever reason and you look to get them to play at a higher level than where they have come from. That's how you develop the team.

You look at the NBA: there's all these young kids that are drafted on potential. They go to bad teams, they're in bad locker rooms, and now we got this analytics stuff that doesn't teach kids how to play. We've got these workout coaches that don't teach kids how to play basketball.

When a scout recommends a brilliant right back or a coach recommends one from our academy, we want the manager to weigh up what is right for the team.

I used to have a log on every corner in the league, what their strengths and weaknesses are.

When you have your roster set up different ways, you really just have to examine the roster, find out what their strengths and weakness are and hopefully you take your roster and the vision you want to implement of how you want to play and you can tweak your roster to create that.

Bad performances can happen and are not that serious - even with new players. You can't, say, sell him, get a new one.

I want to be drafted to a team that knows exactly what they're getting.

We need to be always prepared for every match.

I think that Balotelli could be as good as Torres - and even better than him.

I don't like to talk about players who haven't played; I prefer to talk about the ones who have.

Rondo's a great player, and most teams look at it that anytime you have a chance to get a great player, you do it.

Nowadays, it's hard to know if a player really deserves the money spent on him, because transfer values are high.

It is about building the best team you can, not just one to play in the Championship. You look short-term because you need to be competitive, that's the nature of the business. But it's exciting to have players whose potential is exciting.

I don't worry about individual matchups.

You don't know a player until you coach him.