Dick Vermeil
Dick Vermeil
Richard Albert "Dick" Vermeilis a former American head coach for the National Football League's Philadelphia Eagles, St. Louis Ramsand Kansas City Chiefs. He is in the Sid Gillman coaching tree and has coached at every level; Vermeil owns the distinction of being named “Coach of the Year” on four levels: High School, Junior College, NCAA Division I and Professional Football...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth30 October 1936
CityCalistoga, CA
against practice watching
I could see, from watching practice against our offense, it was going to be a much better defense.
rather win winning
I'd rather win them. Winning is more fun.
bit injury last night
I feel a little bit better than I did last night about our injury situation.
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I don't want to put so much pressure on him right now as a young player. He will become one of the great running backs in the National Football League just like Priest Holmes did. You become that. But each time he steps on the field he adds credibility to those kinds of credentials.
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I could just see, from watching practice against our offense, it was going to be a much better defense, ... Did I anticipate shutting out the Jets? No. But I thought we could slow them down a bit because we can all run. They can all run. I think the blitzing packages kept them off balance a little bit.
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I'm disappointed in myself. The coaches lost, too. When you come out and lose like that, the coaches got beat, and the players got beat. It's not just the players. Maybe we have to do a better job when we get up here.
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I know this -- none of our players said Champ Bailey didn't play hard when we beat them by three touchdowns last year out here.
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You worry about it not working if you have the wrong kind of people, but they're both unselfish, they really are. Granted, Priest may not have 1,600 yards, but together, they'll have more than that.
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All they told us, ... is there's 2,000 people decorating the dance floor.
media shook throwing tumor
All the speculation, television, the media throwing things out all shook him up. Someone said he had a tumor on his spine. He thought it was very unfair.
media shook throwing
All the speculation (from) television, the media throwing things out, all shook him up,
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The trouble is today everything is evaluated on whether you won a Super Bowl or not. Believe me, that's not the No. 1 criteria. It's the easiest for those that don't know what they're doing to evaluate.
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You can see why they were in the Super Bowl last year. We played with them a long time, but not long enough.
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You can see why they're in the Super Bowl. We could play with them for a long time but not long enough to beat them.