It be nice if he has a good regular season but in all honesty as long as he shows up like that in the playoffs the signing will have been worth it and then some.
Just put it on a flag pole and make Goodell wave it around during the entire game until they make space for a couple more banners. He'll surely make a couple of friends in the crowd.
One of the biggest pieces of advice Quinn received from Belichick came when he told him he was accepting the job in Detroit. Belichick had already given his blessing for Quinn to take the job and the two spent over an hour chatting about the job and about life.
"I accepted the Lions job at 1 or 2 in the afternoon. His assistant said he was in the weight room on the treadmill," Quinn told ESPN last year. "I went down there and he turned the treadmill down and he walked really slow and we just sat there and had a conversation for well over an hour about everything. The river just unloaded.
"I wish I had a tape recorder. I didn't even have a piece of paper with me, so I was just trying to remember everything. People don't know. They don't see that guy on the treadmill. They see the guy in front of the press podium. One of the things Bill said to me was, 'Don't try to be me, try to be yourself.'"
(i doubt many people expected this to be the next signing although it ceratinly corresponds with thinner position..)
Kidder, 23, signed a three-year, $1.66 million contract with the Vikings as an undrafted free agent out of Montana this past May. He was set to make base salaries of $465,000 and $555,000 over the first two years of the agreement when the Vikings cut him loose a few days ago.
During his college career at Montana, Kidder recorded 165 tackles, 22.5 tackles for a loss, 10.5 sacks, three fumble recoveries, two blocks and 13 pass defenses over the course of 31 games.
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