Just My Type

Tony Dungy
SUPER BOWL XLI--WINNING COACH

The recent retiree was invited in March by President Obama to join his Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships

Dan Patrick: There's been a lot of discussion about rookie salaries. Do teams care about the financial obligation that comes with trading up in the draft?

Tony Dungy: It's very difficult to draft in the top 10. You hope to only do it once. You hope to get a great player. But it's very tenuous. If it is Peyton Manning or Edgerrin James, it's beautiful. But it doesn't always work out that way.

DP: The Colts' war room was divided on Peyton....

TD: That's why you don't want to be there. That's a $30 million or $40 million decision. There were a lot of people in the country who thought Ryan Leaf was the pick to make. And there were a lot of people the next year who thought that Ricky Williams was the pick rather than Edgerrin James. If you make the right pick, you get a 10-time Pro Bowler. If you make the wrong pick, you lose a lot of money.

DP: Are you going to visit Michael Vick in prison?

TD: Yes, I am.

DP: What do you hope to accomplish?

TD: I want to go out there as a friend. I met Michael when we played [the Falcons] in Japan, and we'd always talked about going fishing together. I'm just going out there to talk about life and what he's going to face. Most people are going to be against him, and he's got to understand that. I'm going to talk to him like I would talk to my son.