Andre Patterson
Andre Patterson
Andre Pattersonis a former American professional basketball player. He is 6 feet 9 1⁄2 inchesin height...
adjustment defense packing parker ready team
It's one thing when you play a team with a big back and it's going to be him packing that thing 40 times. You get ready for it. But they only give you Bettis for 15 and Parker for 25. That's a big adjustment the defense has to make.
believe message night ready saw sends staying takes time whatever work worked
It sends the message that he's ready to work and do whatever it takes to win. Him staying up all night scouting, we can believe in him because he's got our backs. The first time I saw that, when he worked out with us, it was great, because we're all in this together.
adjustment brought came defensive guys job practice ready released sign signed squad tough
When I came to Denver, he was one of the guys I brought up. (The Browns) were going to the 3-4 (alignment); this guy is 6-foot-7 (and) it's going to be tough for him to make the adjustment to be a defensive end, so when they released him, we were ready to sign him, so we signed him to the practice squad and he did an outstanding job for us on the practice squad.
composure corner guys handle hopefully linger ready spot turned younger
Hopefully our younger guys have turned the corner and will be able to handle this. It's only one week. We've got to keep our composure and let it go. You let this one linger too long and then we're not ready for Dallas. Then we're right back to the same old spot we've been in. We're better, but we've got to keep improving. We're not there yet.
alabama arkansas coach kentucky pearl preaching rattled stay
We got rattled in the Kentucky game. We got rattled in the Arkansas game. We got rattled in the Alabama game. Coach Pearl has been preaching that we can't get rattled. We have to stay aggressive.
guys
I've told every one of these guys to make the most of this. You never know when you're going to get back.
career four guys line people putting
People thought I was putting my career on the line by recommending those four guys. But if I'm going to put my career on the line, there's no other four guys I would have chosen.
arena bring came fill goals
That was one of my goals, to fill up the arena and bring it back to the Ernie and Bernie days. That's why I came to Tennessee.
beat feels florida hard kentucky nation teams win
It feels really good. We wanted to beat teams like Florida and Kentucky in the SEC, but we also want to win championships. To be No. 8 in the nation is hard to believe.
games mean three trying win
It doesn't mean anything. I want to win the whole conference. That's our goal. We've got three games to do that, and that's what we're trying to do. We'll just keep going one game at a time.
anyone ball best career played playing
I think he's played the best ball he's played in his career this year. I think he's playing as well as anyone in the league.
teams worked
We've done it more than most teams I've worked with.
ask bit coming confidence defense good guy hearing hurt injury knows team year
When I first got here, he was coming off the injury and being hurt every year and hearing all the things about himself, so yeah, his confidence was a little bit down. But it's back up there, and he knows he's having a good year. I think if you ask any team we've played, he's the first guy on our defense that they would mention.
guys kept knew
But we knew they were tough. Those guys just kept coming. It was like they thought they should win.