John Fox has always had a way with words, and Wednesday at the NFL combine proved that Foxy is still one of professional football’s premiere wordsmiths.

Fox, who compiled a 6-10 record in his first season at the helm of the Chicago Bears, loquaciously lamented on the difficulty of measuring a player’s intangibles. In this case, the player in question was Bears running back Ka’Deem Carey.

Nicki Jhabvala, the Broncos beat writer for the Denver Post, tweeted this delicious nugget from the former Denver skipper from the combine:

We get it; Fox was talking about how some aspects of a player, notably their heart and intelligence, can’t being measured at the combine. But it’s not “what” we don’t understand, it’s the “why.”

He could have said “It’s really tough to gauge a player’s intangibles, his will, his drive to succeed,” or perhaps, “The combine doesn’t have a good test for measuring a player’s heart.”

Both statements answer the question adequately, and would have left zero room for the media to milk a story from a seemingly innocuous quote.

But this is Foxy, and describing his thoughts in laymen’s terms simply would not do. Apparently Fox clearly felt a need to keep the media fully abreast of exactly what was on his mind.