There were plenty of role models for us. My mother believed in education and she put all three of us through college at Grambling. She did not have a high school education, but it was something she impressed upon us. After I graduated, I left Texarkana for California, because I knew I could not get a job here. I was in business with certification and accounting, so I figured it was best to go out West. So I went there. It was still tough to get in that field, but things opened up for me. |
There's always the possibility of a new league. You have to understand it. I do. I lived it. I coached and was a commissioner of a new league that forced a merger. I know how to do it. I really believe the numbers are there where it would be very simple to have a 10-team league. You see with no cap and no draft and no agreement with the players. They had a problem, too, because they would have anarchy. Gene [Upshaw] would be out eventually and the whole group would have been disbanded eventually because people would go their own way. |
This organization's not going to turn back. We're going to find a way. I'd like my next head coach to be winning-oriented. I want the right guy. |
This puts entertainment officially on the map as a key market for the company. |
We believed he fit the bill at that time. |
We came forward with everything we could to make everyone happy ? especially our fans ? and see if we can make this an economically viable organization. |
We didn't score enough points with the firepower we have. |
We haven't been executing well against strong defenses. The kids have to learn to have more patience. We have to learn more patience and let things develop. |
We must run the ball better. It's unbelievable. I thought one of our standards of gold this year would be our offensive line. We have some bright young players there. And we never did get the toughness, or what I would call the power running, that I thought we were going to get. |
We stuttered a little bit at the start, but, hopefully, this will be good for us. |
We want to win. The Raider fans deserve it. The Raider players deserve it ... I just didn't feel the fit was right, and I think he agreed with me. |
We want to win. The Raider fans deserve it. The Raider players deserve it, even my organization deserves it. You have to win and you have to win with a vision for the Super Bowl. That's our passion here. |
We've got labor peace and it's intelligent. It makes sense. We do have the greatest league in the world. |
We've got to run the football better. We've got to run it with toughness. This guy (Shell) knows what I'm talking about. |
We've gotta run that football better, we've gotta run it tougher, and people have to understand that they're gonna get knocked. Not what we call zone blocking. |