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
best football opportunity send team win
We've got to go down there and be the best football team they could send down there. There's an opportunity to go win a football game.
plans send
I never had any plans to send him out of here,
accept best football frame game good guys liked picked send team
They couldn't have picked a better team to send down there and play well ? that's the way we're approaching it. We'll go down there and play our best football game of the year. The guys are in a good frame of mind. They accept it. We would have liked it to be a different way, but we have no choice.
opinions votes
There are a lot of votes in this building. There are a lot of opinions.
assume gained plan player prepare scenario sudden
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.
along spite win
(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.
deserve dominated raiders
The Raiders deserve to be world champions. They dominated us.
bench maybe opportunity priest talent wear
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,
backward game hit
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.
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.
excellent football given good opportunity todd
Todd had an excellent practice, ... He's a good football player. He has never been given the opportunity to demonstrate what he could do.
change exactly great played practice todd
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.
change exactly great played practice todd
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.
hit throws
We had pass-protection problems, ... He was getting hit a lot, and that throws you off a little.