As for Seattle, we are rebuilding - no doubt about it. And in the WNBA, it's not easy to rebuild. You can't dangle millions in front of quality free agents.
It's just part of the NFL. There's going to be moving parts constantly. There's going to be roster changes. There's going to be coaches going somewhere else.
It's not just the NFL. Every other league has a draft. It has been fundamental to the success of professional sports.
The baseball draft is very different from the NBA or the NFL.
You look at my career, everywhere I went - Miami, Green Bay, Cleveland, Philly - they were always bringing in draft picks and former first-rounders and guys with free-agent deals to take my job.
Do I consider the 2003 Draft class the best ever? Yes, absolutely!
For anyone that's reached the NFL, especially top picks, you just come from success.
As a part of the NFL, things change every year.
There are more second-, third-, fourth-, fifth- and so on in the big leagues than first-round picks.
I just don't think you pass on a great quarterback if you have the opportunity. If need be, you can trade it away.
I might like the Sacramento Kings. One of my favorite players is Dirk Nowitzki.
Sometimes guys peak early. They get drafted higher, and they make it to the NFL, and they don't have a lot of growth.
I sat in the green room at Radio City Music Hall for the 2006 NFL Draft. At my table, I was encircled by my parents, brother, agent, former coaches and close friends.
Draft day is a hectic day, especially for draftees and, more or less, for management.
If I could start with anybody, I would initially draft Tom Brady. Then I would go get Ray Lewis, and then maybe an offensive lineman, or somebody like Adrian Peterson.
For the Broncos, they're kind of in a rebuilding stage with a lot of young guys and here I am, 10 years in the league, ready to be a free agent. I think it was best for the Broncos to trade me for the draft picks and try to build.
I call it, 'The Kentucky Effect.' Guys from Kentucky are usually drafted higher, and their shoe contracts are worth more. They're in more demand overall because they played here.
I don't want to give up multiple draft picks for a rental player who is going to be our ninth man.
I've been a lot of places and worked with a lot of different guys. High draft picks. Low draft picks.
As flashy as draft picks are, the reality of them helping out in Year One anyway is not necessarily the case. That's not the reality.
The quarterbacks who are picked in the first round and are declared - and I don't like the word - busts, it's not that the scouts were wrong about their ability or their potential. But commitment is such a huge part of it.
Need always plays into your decisions more as the draft unfolds.
The only predraft talk I listen to is the coaches and the GMs.
At the end of the day you never know what team still wants what player. You just never know with the draft.
We decided to either try trades or just go with older players. If you do that and let contracts expire you can be in the lottery for about four or five years and expect your fans to be patient.
