Fran Foley Quotations

I would give full credit to ownership, because they provided us with the resources necessary to accomplish what we did. They were committed to a successful free-agency period.

His real thing is edge rusher. He's a 4-3 defensive end. He'll be an edge guy for us.

I think we've been working every day on a number of different issues, different fronts.

I think that was the main point we addressed when we came together. I'm talking more myself with Brad, than with Scott. One of the first orders of business we had was to conduct extensive meetings on what exactly it was the coaches wanted for each position. If they had a size, weight or speed requirement for a player, what is it that it would be for every position. And then we communicated that early in February to the scouts so they could do a better job of preparing for this draft.

Part of the plan from the beginning was to take pressure off the draft. The plan is coming together.

I wasn't trying to pull a fast one. To be perfectly honest, I didn't know how (the bio) read.

We are working to correct those, once and for all. I take full responsibility for any embarrassment that I may have caused. I'm continuing to put my full energy into this draft, and I consider this matter closed.

We have flexibility. The philosophy of a personnel staff would be to take the best player available, regardless of position. If you have that, you will generally draft, in the long run, better.

This year, he will lead, because a lot of these coaches and myself, there's no way we could know all (the rookies). There's no way. There's only so much we can do.

We do not have to reach on anybody. We could go up a couple or we could go down a couple. But I don't see us ever doing anything to jeopardize the long-term success of the club. We won't do that.

To be honest with you, we've talked about really not needing to do anything. We could basically just sit there, take our picks, and we'll be happy.

Everyone's going to stay on through the draft. I haven't had a chance to speak to all of them. I will speak to the scouts, but it's a little premature to talk about that. They're already in the process of getting ready for free agency, and I'm just going to jump in and add some things here and there and move forward.

There were no trade discussion talks on Monday. I can tell you that. Those discussions never took place.

There's a number of good first-day linebackers in this draft. A lot of them.

There's an abundance of linebackers in this draft. There are a number of good first-day linebackers.

At this point, you don't rule anything out. There's good players out there. If there are good players and we have an interest in them, we'll try and get them in here.

I'm not saying he's Priest Holmes. But I'm sure he had some of that in the back of his mind, too. That was a selling point.

I know there's a lot of speculation, but we have good linebackers. If you look at our team, you'll see that we have good players at a lot of positions. So luckily for us, we've put ourselves in a position where we don't have to do anything.