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
either gets good guys major reason selfish smart understand
The good thing about him is he gets it. He understands the whole picture. A lot of guys would never get it. Either they're too selfish or they're not smart enough to understand it. But with Ricky, as long as we're winning, he's going to be a major reason why.
bus four halfway healthy kidding
I told them the first four off the bus are the starters. I was kidding them but halfway serious. It's all up for grabs in a healthy way.
accurate fortunate jay needs obvious three throws weeks
It's obvious that Jay needs a lot of work, ... He's behind, and we're fortunate that we have three weeks before we play (a regular-season game) to get that done?.Jay has just got to get enough work. The throws he made were off. He just wasn't very accurate tonight.
catch football team tough
Do I like the excitement? Sure. It's getting our football team to catch up with the excitement, and that's tough to do.
beginning dame game journey
The Notre Dame game is a big one, but it is really just the beginning of a long journey for us.
chance encouraged gives good looked offense overall
The offense overall looked good. There was good protection, no turnovers and no fumbles. I was encouraged by the way they looked today. Getting those little things right gives you the chance to win.
group position solid talented tight top
That's probably as talented a position as we've got on the team. That tight end group is pretty solid from top to bottom.
roller talked
It's what we've talked about for two months; it's a roller coaster, things go up and down,
quick screen turn
The big play to turn it around was the quick screen to Greg Lee,
adjustment amount biggest bit defense difference finding happy kids knowledge limited medium might opposed players practice time week
The biggest adjustment is the time-management part, the limited amount of time you have with the kids as opposed to the pros, ... Every week it's a new challenge. It doesn't make any difference how much knowledge I might have about the defense ... it comes down to what our players can practice and comprehend. Finding that happy medium has been a little bit different.
beat confident good mind needed turning
It was really in my mind a turning point, ... We needed to beat a good opponent. We were more confident than we had been in the past.
blitz blocked chance good guys job level matter mystery newspapers reading ready stop third win
They blocked us, there's no mystery in that. I didn't do a good enough job of getting these guys ready ? they must have been reading the newspapers too much and that's my fault. We've got to get better ? if you can't stop the run, you've got no chance to win no matter the level and we've got to get that done. We wanted to blitz them, but we could never get them to third down.
blitz blocked chance good guys job level matter mystery newspapers reading ready stop third win
They blocked us, there's no mystery in that, ... I didn't do a good enough job of getting these guys ready ? they must have been reading the newspapers too much and that's my fault. We've got to get better ? if you can't stop the run, you've got no chance to win no matter the level and we've got to get that done. We wanted to blitz them, but we could never get them to third down.
both david deserves kicked morning saturday
I told both of them Saturday morning that David has been here, he's kicked and he deserves the first opportunity.