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
four guys improved last run three tough
I thought it would be tough to run on these guys like we have because they've improved their down four (linemen). They had more than just three different guys than they had last year.
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We aren't doing anything he hasn't done before within the offense. Now, he might not have done it the last two or three weeks or four weeks or whatever,
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Oh yeah, sure. There are degrees of sprains and we've had three or four of them this year already and guys come back and play. But you don't know until you get a few days away as to how severe it is.
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They sort of got the monkey off their back today. We had a chance to come back in the fourth quarter, and they didn't allow it. That's a good football team.
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I saw him do four or five things like that. He can make mistakes and still run and catch up and make up for it.
It was the right thing for us to do. And it made me look smart.
battle field helped injury lowest pick point terrible time watched willing
I've been with him through the lowest time of his career. I've helped him come off the field with a terrible injury and I've watched him battle back to the point where you're willing to give up a first-round pick to watch him play again.
bad continue fly football game home lose talent
Conversely, when you lose a football game and you fly home and look at it, it's not as bad as you thought it was. We know we aren't there yet. But we all feel we have the talent here to continue to get better.
bothering calf develop early second took week
Early in the week (Green) had a numbness develop in his calf that went down into his toe. He could play, but after the second series, because it was bothering him, we just took him out. It comes and goes.
holding overcome personal time
Every time we got something going, we had penalties. You can overcome the five-yard penalties. But personal fouls and holding penalties?
hit throws
We had pass-protection problems, ... He was getting hit a lot, and that throws you off a little.
believe learned lesson situation turn walk
Believe me, if the situation comes up again, the lesson he learned from there will be to turn around and walk away.
followed football
I've always followed it, ... At one time, I thought I was going to be a driver, not a football coach.
group position
Sometimes they don't know what they don't know. You put yourself in a position to appease a group that doesn't know what they don't know.