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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There's nothing like having talent. ... Our draft was good. Free agency was good. The maturity of the kids who were already here is starting to grow. And it blended together. I could just see from watching them practice ... it was going to be a much better defense. Did I anticipate shutting out the Jets? No, but I thought we would slow them down pretty good.
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There's nothing like having talent. I've been on the field a long time, and we've never had better football players sitting in this room, collectively. We have some talented players on defense who can run and make plays. Our draft and free agency were good, and then the maturity of the kids that were already here blended together. I could just see from watching practice against our offense, it was going to be a much better defense.
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Now the players are going to say we don't need to practice on Thursday.
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I feel very confident we can play. I go through these concerns all week because we can't practice like we normally practice. But when we line up and play Sunday I'll expect the people on the field to line up and play well enough to win.
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Todd had a great practice today. We would not change at all. If you look back to the preseason games, we did exactly with Todd what we did with Trent. And he played well.
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Todd had a great practice today, ... We would not change at all. If you look back to the preseason games, we did exactly with Todd what we did with Trent. And he played well.
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You don't realize how intense it gets until you study the practice tapes, ... There were some unbelievable collisions with good players against good players.
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He will probably practice on Wednesday, ... There's still a little soreness in the knee. He worked out hard. But we didn't put him in the real competition as far as pass coverage, against man coverage.
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He wants to play. I trust him because I know how unselfish he is. If he didn't think he could step in and run our game plan, he would tell me. As you saw on the practice field today, he's very sharp. He knows what he's doing.
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I just didn't want to get anybody else banged up, ... It's not as good a football practice as a normal Thursday practice is when you have pads.
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He's in the tank. You miss two field goals like that -- not in the National Football League. He has thrown the red flag up the entire training camp in regard to being an accurate kicker on our practice field. So we have a real concern.
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I could see, from watching practice against our offense, it was going to be a much better defense.
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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.
It was the right thing for us to do. And it made me look smart.