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With travel services now a job for the internet alone, there have been several Wall St. darlings in this realm. We just saw the IPO of the most recent addition to this space, Kayak . This young gun is throwing its hat into the ring to become the premier online travel service company.
Kayak has done a magnificent job of developing an online travel search system which consolidates hundreds of offers into a single space. It is becoming a customer favorite with its comprehensive search capabilities and its ease of use.
It has positioned itself in an interesting place such that it is an online travel site, but it does not generate revenue from booking commissions. Rather, its revenue comes from other OTAs, travel services, and advertising. So there is a misconception that the big fish OTAs like Priceline , Orbitz , and Expedia are the competition. Rather, they are the clients!
The true competitor for Kayak is TripAdvisor , and what makes this interesting competition is that they both fill a role better than the other. TripAdvisor excels with its review content, which helps it immensely with generating traffic from social media. It is such an effective platform, that many of the reviews found on Kayak are from TripAdvisor.
What about Kayak, where does its advantage lie? Two words…mobile devices. During the trade show travel for Kayak's IPO, CEO Steve Hafner spoke about Kayak's ability to do a more comprehensive search than any other group, all on a single page. This ability plays right into the hands of mobile device users who do not have the flexibility of a PC to simultaneously search multiple sites for the most lucrative offer. Need proof of this? Kayak is the no. 1 most downloaded mobile travel app for both iPhone and Android operating systems in the US.
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What is truly spectacular is the company's ability to produce a staggering amount of revenue considering it size. Check out the revenue per employee vs. the major players in the online travel space:
Company Name |
Revenue (end of Fiscal year 2011, thousands of dollars) |
Revenue generated per employee |
Kayak |
$224,534 |
$1,213,700 |
Tripadvisor |
$637,063 |
$537,250 |
Priceline |
$3,540,000 |
$373,417 |
Expedia |
$4,580,000 |
$803,508 |
Orbitz |
$771,670 |
$580,639 |
Source: Yahoo! Finance and Kayak company website
A much more efficient model which will lead to better margins makes Kayak a more interesting play right now. Both Kayak and Tripadvisor are seeing annual revenue growth just above 30%, but it should be taken into account that Tripadvisor did have a five year head start on Kayak .
Based solely on a revenue basis, Kayak still has a long way to go in catching up to the others, but it is clear that the market is a long ways from becoming a mature market, and the dominant position has yet to be established.
The results of the IPO on Friday were very positive and the company's vibe is looking good. For someone looking to get in on the ground floor with a potential fast grower, then look no further. Kayak has the traits you are looking for.
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Combine lemon rind, milk and sugar in a saucepan and heat until just scalded. Fold in egg whites, rum, brandy and almond extract. Serve in a punch bowl. Makes six 8-ounce servings.
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Operation Summary for September 6, 2010 - September 8, 2010 |
Monday Sept. 6 The day shift began with Operations monitoring the Tevatron (TeV) store 8058 (85.59E30) and the Recycler stash (250.5E10), with the Antiproton Source (Pbar) stacking (26.8E10), with the Linac, Booster, and the Main Injector (MI) operating normally, with the MiniBooNE and NuMI experiments taking beam, and with the Collider Detector at Fermilab (CDF) and D-Zero (D0) using the colliding beams. During the day shift, Operations terminated store 8058 at 10:55 AM, put the TeV into HEP shot setup, and established store 8059 at 12:16 PM with an average initial luminosity (AIL) of 221.54E30. During the evening shift, operators monitored systems. Tuesday Sept. 7 The midnight shift began with Operations monitoring store 8059 (68.29E30) and the stash (291.3E10), with Pbar stacking (28.3E10), and with NuMI and MiniBooNE taking beam. During the midnight shift, Operations terminated store 8059 at 12:47 AM, put the TeV into shot setup, and established store 8060 at 2:16 AM with an AIL of 265.6E30. At 3:06 AM, the TeV quenched at sector D17. Recovery followed and operators put the TeV into an extended dry squeeze at 6:01 AM. During the day shift, the TeV quench investigation continued. At 8:50 AM, D0 reported a power glitch. Operators prepared the area for access. During the evening shift, D0 came out of access at 7:20 PM. Operations conducted a TeV checkout, put the TeV into shot setup, and established store 8064 at 10:54 PM with an AIL of 271.6E30. Wednesday Sept. 8 The midnight shift began with Operations monitoring store 8064 (205.03E30) and the stash (155.5E10), with Pbar stacking (15.6E10), and with NuMI and MiniBooNE taking beam. During the midnight shift, operators turned off the NuMI beam at 3:30 AM in preparation for an access later in the morning. Operators also turned off the MiniBooNE beam at 5 AM in preparation for an access later in the morning. Operations reported that a planned power outage for the Meson enclosures M01-M03 began at 6:53 AM. The Plans for Wednesday The plans for today are to stack, stash, and store. NuMI and MiniBooNE will resume taking beam later on today. |
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- NAME: Neil deGrasse Tyson
- OCCUPATION: Scientist, Television Personality, Writer
- BIRTH DATE: October 05, 1958 (Age: 55)
- EDUCATION: Bronx High School of Science, Harvard University, Columbia University
- PLACE OF BIRTH: New York, New York
- ZODIAC SIGN: Libra
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Astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson hosted NOVA ScienceNow and appeared on such shows as The Daily Show and Real Time with Bill Maher.
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Born and raised in New York City, astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson discovered his love for the stars at an early age. After studying at Harvard University, he earned his doctorate from Columbia University in 1991. Tyson went to work for the Hayden Planetarium in 1996 and still serves as its director. He hosted the NOVA ScienceNow series from 2006 to 2011. Tyson remains a popular TV science expert today.
Early Life
One of America's best-known scientists, astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson has spent much of his career sharing his knowledge with others. He has a great talent for presenting complex concepts in a clear and accessible manner.
Tyson grew up in New York City. When he was nine, he took a trip to the Hayden Planetarium at the Museum of Natural History where he got his first taste of star-gazing. Tyson later took classes at the Planetarium and got his own telescope. As a teenager, he would watch the skies from the roof of his apartment building.
An excellent student, Tyson graduated from the Bronx High School of Science in 1976. He then earned a bachelor's degree in Physics from Harvard University and a doctorate in astrophysics from Columbia University in 1991. After spending a few years doing post-doctorate work at Princeton University, Tyson landed a job at the Hayden Planetarium.
Career Highlights
Tyson eventually became the director of the Planetarium and worked on an extensive renovation of the facility, from assisting with its design to helping raise the necessary funds. This $210 million project was completed in 2000, and the revamped site offered visitors a cutting-edge look at astronomy. One of Tyson's most controversial decisions at the time was the removal of Pluto from the display of planets. He classified Pluto as a dwarf planet, which invoked a strong response from some visitors. While some asked for the planet Pluto back, the International Astronomical Union followed Tyson's lead in 2006. The organization officially labeled Pluto as a dwarf planet.
In addition to his work at the planetarium, Tyson has found other ways of improving the nation's scientific literacy. "One of my goals is to bring the universe down to Earth in a way that further excites the audience to want more," he once said. To this end, Tyson has written several books for the general public, including Death by Black Hole and Other Cosmic Quandaries and The Pluto Files: The Rise and Fall of America's Favorite Planet. He has taken his message to the airwaves as well, serving as the host of PBS's NOVA ScienceNow documentary series from 2006 to 2011. In addition to breaking down barriers between scientists and the general public, Tyson has brought diversity to astrophysics. He is one of the few African Americans in his field.
Tyson has also served as a presidential advisor. In 2001, President George W. Bush appointed him to a commission on the future of the aerospace industry. He also served another commission three years later to examine U.S. policy on space exploration.
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Linux-Based 8mm Telecine
Media Conversions, my business, converts videotape and slides to DVD. My customers often ask if I also can convert 8mm film. This is the story of my adventure into converting film to DVD. There are a number of ways to make a conversion. You can run the film through a projector and use a video camera to capture the images. Although, finding a working projector is difficult. Belts and rubber drive components dry up. Worse, 30-year-old rolls of film, some with splices, may no longer stand up to the stress of being projected at 18 frames/second (f/s). Plus, most video cameras run at 30f/s and will not synchronize with the projector.
Telecines have been used since the early days of broadcast TV to convert film to video. A number of Web sites describe DIY Telecine projects (see Resources). Generally, they either rebuild a projector and use a still camera, or they utilize a flatbed scanner and a custom film transport. Based on my research, I decided to build a Telecine using a flatbed scanner. The cost of entry is low, and scanners running at 3,000dpi or above are a commodity item. You can get started on the conversion software without the film transport, and you don't need custom optics. The downside, if you're not a programmer, is that you have to write all of your own software.
I decided early in the project that I wanted to use only open-source software tools. I hosted it on an Ubuntu Linux desktop system. I knew I would need a programming language with support for scanning, serial (or parallel) port communication, a math library and an image library. A plotting and drawing library also would be helpful during program development. I also wanted a language that offered ease of programming in higher-level constructs. I was familiar with C, but did not want to use it for this project, so instead, I decided to use Python. Python is easy to learn, it's well supported by the Linux community in both on-line forums and with numerous examples of code, and error handling and type checking/conversion are part of the language. Plus, the Python Imaging Library includes an interface to SANE for scanner support.
I acquired an Epson Perfection 3490 photo scanner for the project. It has SANE drivers, a built-in backlight for film scanning and offers 3,200dpi resolution.
There are four steps to converting a roll of film: scan the film in segments, find the image frames in the segments, remove duplicate frames where the segments overlap and make a movie from the frames. I wrote three separate Python programs for the first three steps and used FFmpeg for the fourth. The software relies on cheap disk space. Frame files are copied from segment scans. Overlap removal makes a second, renumbered, copy of all of the frame files. This strategy allows each of those programs to be rerun with the same segment scans for debugging and program development.
The cost, for a 50-foot roll of film, is approximately 8GB of space for the segment scans and similar amounts of space for the log file (if debug is turned on) and each of the frame file sets. Files are written into subdirectories of the current directory and numbered sequentially. A root filename, given as a command-line argument, is used as a prefix. Scan data is written into the scans directory, and frame files are written to the frames directory. If logging is turned on, log files are written to the logs. If debug is left on (default setting), marked up copies of the scan files also are written to the logs. The markings show where the edges of the sprocket holes were found and the outline of the frame extracted. Finally, overlap-removed, renumbered frames are written to the movie directory.
The program for scanning film simply calls the SANE scanner interface, saves the scan data, advances the film and repeats for a count given as an argument on the command line. See the Film Transport sidebar for a description. You can do a project like this without a film transport, but it's tedious. Each scan takes about 80 seconds. Limits on the size of the backlight meant that I could use only about 7.7 inches out of the approximately 8.5 inches of scanner width. Allowing for overlap between the scans, a 50-foot roll of film will have about 90 scan segments and takes roughly two hours to scan.
Film Transport
There are two parts to this project. One involves the software that processes the scanned film and makes a movie. The other part is the design of a film transport. The film transport is the harder part of the project, because it involves creating one-of-a-kind hardware. My transport design is based on reel-to-reel tape recorders popular in the 1960s (Figure a). It feeds film from a supply reel, across the scanner and winds it up on a take-up reel. A pair of spring-loaded idlers maintains film tension. A sprocket drive advances the film.
The film transport is controlled by an embedded microprocessor. It takes commands from the Linux system over a serial port, and controls supply and take-up reel rotation and a sprocket motor for advancing the film. I was able to find both a program development and device programming environment as well as a C compiler for the Microchip PIC series of microprocessors all running under Linux. See Resources for the list of software tools used in this project.
To simplify the software, I made a film guide out of 10mm thick clear plastic film. I first aligned a steel ruler with the scanner axis, and I used GIMP to examine scans of the ruler edge. I moved it between scans until it was aligned to within approximately 50 pixels with the grid in GIMP. At 3,200dpi, 50 pixels is about 0.015 inches and more than adequate for this application. Then, I placed a piece of plastic against the ruler and glued it down with CyanoAcrylate glue. Once the glue was dry, I removed the ruler and used a piece of 8mm leader as a spacer to glue down a second guide. A sheet of glass placed over the guides keeps the film being scanned in alignment. With the film aligned with the scanner, no corrections for skewed images are necessary.
The program for finding frames actually is looking for sprocket holes. It's substituting software registration for mechanical registration of the film. Figure 1 shows a short piece of scanned film. The left-hand side is the original scan, and the right-hand side is the same scan converted to black and white (B&W).
Before we look for sprocket holes, we first find the top edge of the film. Given the alignment of the film in the guides, we could skip this step, but at this point, I'd rather not. The location of the top edge and knowing whether it's Regular8 or Super8 film (see the A Short History of 8mm Film sidebar), tells us approximately where the centerline of the sprocket holes will be.
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The cloud; not just for work, but also for play. Music from the cloud has been steadily growing in popularity in recent years, to the point now where even Apple is getting in on it with iTunes Radio. Many camps consider it to be the future of how we listen to music, but we're not there yet. Not even close. There's a whole myriad of reasons as to why, and no matter how much we want it right now, it just isn't viable right now to go all-in with a streaming service.
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iCloud promised ubiquitous access -- all our stuff, every where and every when we wanted it. Not sync, Apple very carefully, almost awkwardly explained it, but an idea that was and is just as simple. You create something, it gets stored on the iCloud, and pushed down to all of your iOS and OS X devices. Not a server-side truth store, and critically, not a file system either. Unlike Google, it didn't live in the browser, and unlike iDisk, which came before it, there were and are no folders or hierarchies to get lost in, no Finder or Explorer to trudge through. iCloud, as Apple positioned it, was and is something new and something potentially much, much better.
The problem is, it doesn't work yet.
Today at I/O 2012 Google announced that they're extending their cloud storage service to iOS devices, allowing iPhone and iPad owners to remotely access their documents, music, photos, and other files. It has some cool tricks baked in, such as optical character recognition, so you can search through documents that have been scanned or photographed.
CloudOn, a free iPad app that offered Microsoft Office functionality with Dropbox support, appeared briefly in the App Store yesterday before going up in a puff of smoke a short time later.
CloudOn has responded saying their app has "sold out", but we think this may have had something to do with server overload.
Thanks for your support of CloudOn! We're currently sold out. We look forward to the feedback we will receive as we continue to support the many users that have registered in this first phase.
Microsoft has released their SkyDrive app for the iPhone and iPod touch, giving users access to their free cloud storage service and allowing 25 gigabytes worth of space for storing files, photos and other media types.
SkyDrive from Microsoft is the place to store your files so you can access them from virtually any device. With SkyDrive for the iPhone, you can now easily access, manage and share files on the go. You can also upload photos or videos from your iPhone to SkyDrive.
iTunes Replay is the rumored name of the rumored Apple subscription video streaming service rumored to compete with the likes of Netflix. Apple Insider reported on the rumors a while back, and now App Advice hears it might be coming soon.
TouchArcade was able to sit down with OnLive at E3 for a brief presentation of their cloud gaming service, which promises to bring full HD console quality gaming to the iPad.
When OnLive started up in 2009 it was speculated that the service would eventually come to the iPhone, but this was long before the iPad was available. They've since discovered the iPad is a far better use case for exploring this type of gaming service on an iOS device, and they've fully committed to get this out the door as soon as everything is solid enough for consumers.
OnLive even has a bluetooth controller they'll make available, which should bring a more console-like experience for iPad users instead of having to use the touchscreen. Imagine pairing this with up with your HDTV via HDMI using the bluetooth controller, and you begin get a real sense of how truly awesome this could be.
Although they haven't set an official release date, OnLive representatives have stated the service is "coming soon" to the iPad and the bluetooth controller will be available at a reasonable price.
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CNET reports that Universal Music Group has finalized a deal for Apple to offer streaming music through their new iCloud service. Apple will announce iCloud at WWDC next week, which will reportedly cost just $25 per year after an initial free trial period.
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Another dud. Melo will be on that bench much more often then on the floor(if his chair holds up). Half the league of players from 9th on down to 12th on the bench couldn't make a team from the 1960's. Missed layups, clanked free throws, lousy shooting, too much dunking, poor shot selection, porous defense and lousy work ethic have taken the league down. The International players haven't so much caught up as the quality of play in the USA has fallen. Fundamentals aren't taught anymore, not even in high school. An athletic person is taken prior to somebody with real skills. Lastly, just because a guy is 7 feet tall doesn't mean he's any good.
Fab Melo to receive Mavericks' training camp invitation
Fab Melo, who was released by the Memphis Grizzlies this summer almost immediately after the team acquired him in a trade with the Boston Celtics, is now expected to head to Dallas for training camp with the Mavericks.
According to a tweet Tuesday afternoon from Marc Stein of ESPN, the Mavs will extend an invitation to the former Syracuse standout to attend training camp, which officially begins Oct. 1.
It's not clear how the team would add the seven-footer to the roster, as Dallas currently has the max of 15 players already signed to guaranteed contracts. The team bolstered its depleted frontcourt this summer with the addition of San Antonio Spurs forward-center DeJuan Blair and Milwaukee Bucks center Samuel Dalembert. The 23-year Melo has the potential to earn minutes in the NBA, as he showed promise by averaging 9.8 points, 6.0 rebounds and 3.1 blocks last season in the NBDL.
If nothing but an invitation for now, the move could be an investment in the future for an aging team that's led by 35-year-old Dirk Nowitzki and is on the verge of entering into another rebuilding phase.
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Mark Craig has covered the NFL for 23 years, and the Vikings since 2003 for the Star Tribune. He is one of 44 Pro Football Hall of Fame selectors. Follow him at @markcraignfl.
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The Vikings report to training camp Thursday and will hold their first full practice Friday afternoon at Minnesota State University in Mankato. That means the first preseason game is now 16 days away with the Sept. 9 regular season opener against Jacksonville kicking off just six-and-a-half weeks from now. As the Access Vikings team gets ready to head to camp, here's a list of eight under-the-radar players who we'll be watching closely, guys who could have a significant role in helping turn things around.
Reporters weren't the only ones who couldn't tell the players without a scorecard during the first day of the Vikings' rookie mini-camp at Winter Park.
Leslie Frazier, the head coach, had trouble putting names to the numbers of 70 players who were in camp. Even some of the big names.
"I was watching the guys return punts this morning," Frazier said. "We still have the cheat sheets where we're looking at guys' numbers. Josh [Robinson] caught a punt and he just took off like a guy shot out of a rocket. I said, `Man, that guy's got a nice little burst. See who that is.' And I look and it's Josh Robinson. I said, `That's a good sign. That's a good thing.'"
Robinson, the team's third-round draft pick, ran a combine-best 4.29 40-yard dash.
"That burst, it sticks out," Frazier said. "You can see why he ran a 4.2, 4.3 40 at the combine. He can get from A to B pretty quick."
Robinson will compete for the punt return job and might be given a chance to compete at kick returner. The former Central Florida player needs polish at corner, but Frazier isn't ruling anything out this year.
"We'll keep throwing things at him and watch him compete for a job," Frazier said. "Not just the nickel position. We want him to compete for a starting job."
Robinson said he never doubted he'd be able to run the best time at the combine.
"I've run faster hand-timed 40s before," he said.
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The Vikings brought in 70 players to this weekend's camp, which includes two sessions today, two on Saturday and one on Sunday. There were 10 draft picks, 15 undrafted free agents that have been signed, seven first-year players they signed before the draft and 38 players who are trying out. There would have been 39 trying out, but Trevor Olson, an offensive tackle from Northern Illinois and Richfield High School, signed a deal with the Buccaneers before camp started.
"When we were talking about this year's rookie minicamp, I asked [General Manager] Rick [Spielman] and the scouts, `Get us some numbers. We want competition at this game.' Get us the best guys you can get, but get us some depth as well because the more guys you have competing, the better chance you have of finding someone who was undrafted who may be able to help your team. So that was the goal, to get some numbers and not have just 20 to 25 guys."
Here are some of the 38 players trying out:
Here are some other highlights from Frazier's press conference:
The NFL Draft is now less than a week away. And by now, we've exhausted the discussions about quarterback sensations Andrew Luck and Robert Griffin III; about what the Vikings plan to do with their No. 3 pick; about the value of receivers and left tackles and running backs.
But have you ever wondered what this final week is like for those middle- to late-round prospects and their agents? Have you ever heard about the chaos that ensues after the final pick is made for those players who weren't drafted? Ever wanted an agent's take on the noise and hype that surrounds the draft?
This week, we visited with agent Blake Baratz, president of the Institute for Athletes, at his downtown Minneapolis office. Baratz has three clients who have a chance of being drafted next week – Texas defensive tackle Kheeston Randall, Iowa guard Adam Gettis and Wisconsin kicker Philip Welch.
Here are the eight most notable insights Baratz regarding the undercurrent that exists during the final stages before the draft …
On how an agent takes the pulse on the draft stock of his clients …
"At this stage, I'm talking to teams, if not daily then every other day. So you start to get a pretty good idea of which teams are interested in your players, how heavily and in what capacity. And I won't know even up to the day of the draft, 90 percent of the time, as to exactly where a player is going to go. But I have an idea of which teams have a heavy interest in them. And I know where they have them graded from a draft standpoint and I know what number they pick in each round. So I can pigeonhole that. These are the three or four teams that really like them, this is where they draft, so there's a good chance they go in this little window."
On getting the players themselves to understand that part of the equation …
"I think we've done a really good job of just managing expectations. I think a lot of agents don't. A lot of agents do the opposite. They tell every guy that they're going to be a first-round pick or a second-round pick and it turns into a disaster. We're very clear with them from jump street about how the draft plays out. At the end of the day I stress to these guys, in the long run it doesn't matter. Yes, I want our guys to get drafted as high as possible because there is pride involved and there's financial incentive. But it doesn't matter. Once you're into OTAs the next week, no one cares where you were drafted. JaMarcus Russell is sitting at home. And Jake Ballard [a Baratz client] went undrafted two years ago and started at tight end in the Super Bowl for the Giants. Guys like Kurt Coleman, who was a seventh-round pick two years ago, is a starting safety for the Eagles. It doesn't really matter."
On the hype that surrounds the draft from the media and draft pundits …
"It's a ton of overkill. There are so many of these mock drafts and all this speculation. Mel Kiper. Todd McShay. Every other blogger in the world. They don't know anything anyway. It's not like [Chiefs general manager] Scott Pioli is telling Todd McShay his entire draft strategy. They're telling almost no one their strategy. Before last year's draft, we had Adrian Clayborn, who went 20th [to Tampa Bay], and we had Jonas Mouton, who went in the second round [to San Diego]. And I didn't have a single team before the draft telling me Jonas Mouton was going to get taken higher than the third round. If you look at any of these mock drafts, they all had Jonas in the sixth round, the seventh round, undrafted. It's all a circus. It's for the fans. It's the media. It's speculation. And because there is so much hype surrounding the National Football League, that's what happens. I don't read it. I don't care. I try to remain even keel."
On the pre-draft stock rise of client Adam Gettis, a guard from Iowa …
"From a media standpoint, he was under the radar to begin with. He was only a one-year starter at Iowa. He had a really good senior year, was very fundamentally sound. But you're talking about the Iowa offensive line. And there you have Riley Reiff stealing a bulk of the spotlight because he's a top 20 pick. Plus the normal person can't name two college guards in the country anyway, let alone the eighth best guard in the country. With Adam, I had done enough homework on him and talked to enough people in the NFL to do know he was very good fundamentally. But he played guard in college at like 275 pounds. So the issue for him was he was already going to be off a bunch of team's draft boards because he wasn't heavy enough to play on their offensive line. We knew he would test out great athletically. But none of that matters if you're not big enough and strong enough to play on the offensive line in the NFL. So we set a goal that he would weigh in at 290-plus come the combine. … He showed up there at 294 and athletically did everything people expected him to. So now he's "on the rise." Not surprising to us. But to all the NFL teams that don't know him that well and the media that doesn't know who he is, for a guy to come in at 294 and put up the numbers he put up, it showed how athletic he was."
On why stories like that seem common …
"These NFL teams, no disrespect to any of them, but they're just cramming for a test that they're not prepared for. That's why they now have the [East-West] Shrine Game and the Senior Bowl and the pro days and the combine and all of this within three months. They're just cramming for a test they're not prepared for. They're worrying about a thousand guys. There's free agency at the same time. So it's not a coincidence that teams miss on draft picks so often. I know our draft picks 100 times better than these teams do. Because I'm only worried about a handful of guys. These teams are worrying about 1,000. And they're worrying about hundreds of free agents too. You can't possibly be in tune with all these guys. I realized a long time ago, it's not all about the talent in the NFL. It's about working hard and being coachable and doing the right things. This time of year, teams will get so caught up in physique and size and speed. But honestly, if you're in this NFL business and you can't watch a guy play football for four years and interview them and talk to their college coaches and figure out if they're going to be a good player, then you've got the wrong guys on your staff. That's my belief. I'm not saying it's right or wrong. I know a lot of these GMs. And they have a difficult job. But they can fall into the trap of overanalyzing."
On the Vikings seemingly having interest in both Gettis and Kheeston Randall …
"It's two positions they definitely need help at. They're looking for a D-tackle to play next to Kevin Williams, a plugger. Too many running backs were getting to the second level last season and getting to the linebackers. So they're looking for a Pat Williams replacement. Kheeston is lighter than Pat but more athletic. There's some interest there. They like him. He'd be a good fit. And Adam is just versatile. He plays both guard positions. He can play center. For him, all of it will depend on what Minnesota does at the top of the draft. If they take Kalil, then Charlie [Johnson] gets kicked inside to guard and that position becomes less of a priority. But where these two guys should get drafted – third, fourth, fifth round – a lot of those picks you're looking for versatility, hunting for depth. Minnesota's in rebuilding mode and obviously has many areas of need. But they've gotten to know those guys well."
On the frenzy that will occur Saturday night when the draft is over and teams begin scrambling to sign undrafted free agents …
"The undrafted process is the worst process in the whole world. It's chaos. Absolute chaos. Guys literally have 2 minutes to make a decision. Fortunately or unfortunately, I have experience doing it. And so I'm monitoring the draft very closely and constantly updating the depth charts very closely. For an undrafted free agent, where they land is so important. That is what determines whether they have a shot or don't have a shot. And I know each team's tendencies. If we have an undrafted tight end, for example, I know which teams happen to keep two tight ends on average or five tight ends on average. The New York Giants, at a minimum, will keep four tight ends on their roster, sometimes five. The New Orleans Saints usually keep two. So if the Saints already have four or five tight ends on their roster and you're an undrafted free agent tight end, you don't want to go to New Orleans. Too many agents ignore that fact. And if New Orleans offers $5,000 more than the Giants, they'll send their guy to New Orleans. And that can be the end of a guy's career. That quickly. So I've got those depth charts under constant watch. And I've already started having those conversations about those guys who could potentially go undrafted. You need to make sure your guy has a home quickly. Because once those rosters fill up, they're gone. And guys have literally one minute to make a decision a lot of times.
"Honestly, it's so chaotic. The GMs and a lot of times even the scouts are calling about 20 players at one time. And they may even be calling the players directly. So if you have two or three of those guys, everyone is calling at the exact same time and they want a decision right then. So if I find an opportunity that's a good home for the guy, I'm going to try to hold on to that as long as possible while I search everything else out. Some guys have only one offer. But Jake Ballard had 25 different offers as an undrafted free agent [before signing with the Giants]. Jonathan Casillas had two dozen offers. The Buccaneers, with Casillas, came to us offering to pay seventh-round money. They were going to give him a $40,000 signing bonus. And we turned it down to take $10,000 from New Orleans based simply on the opportunity. At the time, it was the right decision. He contributed to a Super Bowl champion as a rookie. And Tampa Bay went in the opposite direction. But it all depends on the individual and the situation and the teams involved.
"It can be crazy. It's like a recruiting pitch. The defensive coordinator is calling them. The head coach is calling them. These guys are undrafted free agents so they don't know what to believe. Everyone is selling them a dream. And it's difficult to tell a college kid who has no money to turn down $40,000 to take $10,000. But 98 percent of the time our guys will listen because they trust we're putting them in the right spot. And I make more money if they make more money. So turning down those offers. it's taking money out of my pocket too. So they trust the motivation. The goal is that you put yourself in a situation to make the active roster and make that $400,000 salary then."
On veteran free agents that remain unsigned right now …