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 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.

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.

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

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