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From Eric Mangini's Press conference Today

(On if it is tough for some players to deal with roster moves like when Mike Bell was brought to Cleveland)- “I think each guy is a little bit different and each reaction is a little bit different. You bring in so many players whether it’s in the offseason with free agency, the draft or whatever the case may be and you’re constantly being challenged in terms of your position or your play time. That’s what we deal with and it’s the reality. I think that the thing that I try to do, and we try to do, is give everybody the opportunity to constantly improve their situation on the team and that’s important to me. One of the things we will do here during the bye, as well, is if anybody has any questions about where they stand or what they can do to have a bigger role or improve their level of play time they can set up a meeting with me. I can spend some time with them individually and talk about that stuff. We have point of attack tapes on all the players so that’s all the plays they have been involved in in the game but guys that haven’t been in the games and it’s just practice, we have those plays cut up as well, so it’s isolated. They can go back and watch that tape and that can be something that myself and the player can sit down and watch and I can say, ‘Okay here’s what I see as the things you need to work on, if you improve these things your play time will improve.’ That’s been a very good tool from my perspective and I think from a lot of the players’ perspective because I think you lose track of some of the stuff you need to work on. You may have a different sort of perspective on how far you might have to go in an area but then when you see it, it kind of brings it all back into focus. These POAs we can go as far back as OTAs, to training camp and run them down the line. I remember I sat down with one player during the bye and he was a rookie at the time and I showed him the tapes from the season to date and training camp and preseason, and then I showed him his college POA and I said, ‘Here’s the guy I drafted and now here’s the guy that’s now a member of this team. You tell me why there’s a difference.’ It wasn’t to do anything besides to clear up why I felt the why that I felt and I think it was really productive for him. He’s still with the team now, this was back in New York and he’s doing a good job. I’ve seen a few of their games or tapes of their games and the issues that we talked about he’s gotten better at. I don’t know if it was a direct result of that conversation but I’m happy to see it because that’s the guy we saw on college tape and that’s the same guy that should have been there right away in New York.”

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I'd say Gholston because despite the stuff about almighty sacks he's actually been active this year and has played strong against the run...That said, I'm sure he saw more talent in Gholston than what Gholston's doing now and it could be anyone...so yea...who cares....apparently I do since I just typed this drivel.

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