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
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I haven't ruled out putting Dorin back there and pitching him the ball.
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I'm Tyler's biggest supporter. He's our guy. I believe in him and he'll bounce back this week, but we've got to be honest about things,
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In defense of the tackles, which I haven't done maybe all this year, last week there was only the one sack where the guy came around the edge,
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I know the responsibility that comes with being a head coach, and knew the work and commitment it would take to build a top-10 program. And that's the goal,
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The big play to turn it around was the quick screen to Greg Lee,
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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.
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They know we're being fair. We're doing everything we can to win every game, but there's no set amount of time that these freshmen are going to play.
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Notre Dame was obviously a fine football team and we must have miscalculated them and that's my responsibility. We hit adversity and did not deal with it the way championship teams deal with adversity, so we'll address that. The way we played in week 1 will not be the way we play in week 11.
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I'm not ruling anything out, and my mind-set has not changed, it's the timing, ... I'm going to keep my football options open. NFL or college, I'm really not closing the door on anything.
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I'm glad they didn't ask me to carry that thing in. But this a nice little tradition to start and it stays with us for a year. The players brought it into the locker room and it is a nice honor.
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I guarantee you teams are going to start off saying, 'Don't let Ricky Williams run the ball,'
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I must not have done a good enough job myself preventing our guys from reading the newspapers and magazines. We were thinking we were a little further along or a better football team than we showed.
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It's what we've talked about for two months; it's a roller coaster, things go up and down,
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I told both of them Saturday morning that David has been here, he's kicked and he deserves the first opportunity.