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
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We've had some very productive offensive games in Denver, ... but we've never been able to really slow them down enough to beat 'em. So we know what we have to do.
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Our chances aren't real good, but we know who we play Saturday. Right now, San Diego is playing probably like they were playing last week when they beat the only undefeated team in football. They might very well be the best team in the AFC right now.
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We have to manage ourselves in a way that allows us to neutralize advantages that a home team has. We've gone there and won before, (but) we haven't beaten this football team before.
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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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They beat us in about every way they could beat us.
beat deserve
You deserve that, buddy. We beat the world champions.
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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.
opinions votes
There are a lot of votes in this building. There are a lot of opinions.
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We always prepare for the worst. You can't assume somebody's going to be there, then all of a sudden he's not. You plan for this and for that. We'll prepare for the worst-case scenario and if it doesn't go that way, then we've gained a player or two.
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(There are quarterbacks) you win because of, ones you win along with and ones you win in spite of. If you've got one you have to win in spite of, he's usually not the quarterback very long.
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The Raiders deserve to be world champions. They dominated us.
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To have that kind of talent on the bench and not give him an opportunity to use it, and maybe wear out Priest a little more, that was the whole thing I was thinking,
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We scaled things down as the game went on because (quarterback) Trent (Green) was getting hit back there. We went backward in what we could call.
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Believe me, if the situation comes up again, the lesson he learned from there will be to turn around and walk away.