Our running game has been built on the idea that if you always run to make 4 yards, every once in a while you'll make 44. If you always look to make a 44-yard gain, you'll only make 4 inches. |
Sometimes his supporting cast let him down last season, but he hung in there tough. It's hard to play out there if you're thinking too much. He's not worrying about his basic assignments, he's taking it to a new level. |
Terrible. Atrocious. We violated about every fundamental there is. |
That saved one of my assistant coaches; that's all that did when he fumbled the ball. I'm not going to tell you the assistant. He shouldn't have done that. |
That's an easy question, but a tough answer. To go from a loser to a winner, to a consistent winner, it's not all done until you win a conference championship. |
That's one of the things I love about my job, because I get to see people, kids, under pressure, and I know a lot of people are always very critical of people when they are not under pressure but when they see other people who are not coming through, |
The biggest thing that he brings to our program is toughness. He makes everybody tougher. He's as tough as they come. |
The difference between 3-8 and 8-3 is so small that if you blink your eye, you miss it. |
The first thing that comes to my mind, I feel this is the worst defeat we've endured in the seven-plus years I've been here. |
The first time that he's going in there in front of 100,000 people and be on TV, it's a different experience for him. Sometimes they handle it well, and sometimes they don't. |
The last couple of years, we were rotating three or four guys in there. We don't have that luxury right now. |
There are ways to coach -- one is not to lose and the other is to coach to win. I learned a long time ago that it is a lot more fun to try and coach to win. If you want to be critical, it was my decision to try and score before the half, leaving time on clock. |
There is still a lot of football to be played. If you keep looking in the rearview mirror, that's where you will go - backwards. You have to shake this off and march forward. |
There's a reason why he was a most valuable player in the Ohio North/South All-Star Game, and in the Big 33 game between Ohio and Pennsylvania [high school players], he was the most valuable player, ... I'm just glad we got him here in Minnesota. |
They are all grown men. I'm sensitive to it, but I don't know exactly what the situation is. |