Random quotes said Wednesday at the NFL combine.
Cardinals head coach Bruce Arians
On whether he’s talked to Carson Palmer:
"Yeah, a couple times. Mom’s doing good, the baby’s doing good. His golf game sucks. That’s because he didn’t play all year. He was bound and determined that he wasn’t going to play golf until after the season. He’s paying for it right now. He’s losing every bet."
On first-round OT D.J. Humphries not playing as a rookie:
"We drafted D.J. last year knowing we were going to redshirt him because we had so much to teach him. If he threw him out there, he was going to fail. Once they fail, it’s hard to get those scars off. He didn’t dress a game purposefully just to get better and better. Going against guys like Dwight Miller and Calais (Campbell) in practice, he got better every week. I think next year he’ll be ready to play."
Bears head coach John Fox
On watching the Super Bowl, which featured two teams he had coached:
"I’ve got a lot of close friends, staff, players, a lot of people. The unfortunate thing going into that was you know one of them had to lose. That was never easy. I feel really good for all the people involved in all of that and I congratulated most of them.”
Redskins head coach Jay Gruden
On OLB Junior Gallette posting a new video on Snapchat
"Uh oh."
It was of him running the ladder (in rehab)
"Oh, good."
Bills head coach Rex Ryan
On how close Buffalo is to catching the Patriots:
“Yeah I don’t know, I don’t want to focus on anybody else’s team, especially the Patriots.”
Steelers general manager Kevin Colbert
On having tablet technology on the sidelines:
"I think our coaches like it. I think they get frustrated at times, because in the past they could rip the pages out or throw the books. Now, they get in trouble if they do."
South Carolina OT Brandon Shell
On what he's seen on tape of his uncle, Hall of Fame OT Art Shell:
"He did what he can but he didn’t want to overstep the boundaries of what I had in college because it was a different scheme. He was a monster. He’s a beast."
UCLA RB Paul Perkins
On the lack of food at the combine:
“I’ve been preparing for this. Bringing peanut butter & jellies, granola bars, trail mix, and all sorts of stuff. Snacks and water are key.”
Stanford G Josh Garnett
On how he did academically:
"I’m a human biology major. I want to be a trauma surgeon after football is all over. I worked in a cell biology lab this past summer, did a stint in an ER for some shadowing. I just love being able to see the high-intensity environment. Everyone’s working together. The quarterback is the head doctor. You have the nurses, kind of the offensive linemen of the thing, doing the dirty work but not getting the credit for it. But everyone is real locked in and working as a team."
Baylor OT Spencer Drango
On overcoming dyslexia:
"There’s no clear-cut (way). Albert Einstein was dyslexic and obviously he’s way smarter than I am so … It’s a bunch of classes. Remember hooked on phonics? That type of program, just like that, trying to relearn how to read and learn what learning techniques work for you because you never really grow out of it but you can learn to cope with it."
On the craziest question he's been asked by a team during the draft process:
"Internet history. Would you share your Internet history with me? I said yea. I search a lot of food, directions, how to spell words because
I’m dyslexic, things like that."
Arkansas G Sebastian Tretola
On the craziest question he's been asked:
"How do you feel about taxes?"