Dave Wannstedt
Dave Wannstedt
Dave Wannstedtis an American football coach. He has been the head coach of the Chicago Bears and Miami Dolphins of the National Football League. He was also the head coach of the University of Pittsburgh football team from 2005 to 2010. He also was a long-time assistant to Jimmy Johnson with the Dallas Cowboys, Miami Hurricanes, and Oklahoma State Cowboys as well as an associate of Johnson when both were assistants at the University of Pittsburgh in the 1970s...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth21 May 1952
focusing players position situation whatever younger
If we ever get in a situation where we can play younger players at any position we would, but right now it's just focusing on whatever we have to try and do to get a win.
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If we had never done this before or never had success doing it, or had offensive schemes that hadn't been successful or the guys that are teaching had never done it ... it's not an issue, ... It's a little frustrating. When you don't have success, there's a lot of what Bill Parcells says ? there's a lot of exit doors.
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I didn't do a good enough job of getting the guys prepared. I must not have done a good enough job of preventing our guys from reading newspapers and magazines and thinking we were a little further along or a better football team than we are today.
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Richardson will continue to practice and work hard. I think he has learned his lesson.
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People were fired up. We had several recruits at our game, and they're fired up. It's going to be a top 10, possibly better, class in the entire country. It's going to be one of the best classes that I believe, if everything stays on course, that we've had here in a long, long time.
fired people
People were fired up. And we had some recruits at (Saturday's) game, and they were fired up.
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Next yearn there will be other areas we address. For instance, it looks like a strong year for offensive linemen in Western Pennsylvania. We'll look closely at that.
growing learning offensive period
No. 1, he's learning a new offensive system. There is a growing period there that has to take place.
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So, in all fairness to the kids, if we're going to be putting it on them to line up against Virginia (next season's opener) and win for us, then I think it's best for the team and them to get some experience and play.
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Somebody convinced Greg early he was going to be a high pick. It's unfortunate, because you only get a chance to be drafted once.
book life
Most of the things they've said have come true, ... It's probably like anything else in life, in that you can read a book or be told about what's coming, but you have to go through some of those things, have that life experience, to make the adjustments.
bit blocking football
Now, we'll do a little bit of what football really is -- blocking and tackling. Turf burns, maybe.
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When we run our tosses and our powers and our heavy run game, he's got to block somebody. He needs it. In the long run, it'll be the best thing that's happened to him.
confident line run
We're confident we can run the ball. We're going to line up and run the ball, ... We're not going to back away from anything.