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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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.
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Every time we got something going, we had penalties. You can overcome the five-yard penalties. But personal fouls and holding penalties?
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Some people see Priest going out there on Saturday for the first time and say, 'What's he doing?' ... He's poised to have a great season.
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Ryan Sims is going for a second opinion, flying to (North) Carolina as requested by (team physician) Dr. Jon Browne. We're hopeful it will only be a minimum time he's missing.
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It's the right time for me to leave. They don't need me here next year, everybody asking, 'Is he going to be here next year?' I just wish I was 10 years younger.
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It's the right time for me to go. It's the right time for me to leave the Chiefs. They don't want a guy where every year they say 'Is he going to be here?' It's just not fair.
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That kind of guy, as you saw, most of the time somebody was on him, but he just wins the battle physically, one-on-one. They do a great job of throwing him the ball. It's just a one-on-one situation, and he wins that battle.
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It's about time that assistant coaches got paid like that. Those owners that are complaining could pay their assistants like that, but they don't. The National Football League is supposed to be the best of the best. If you can't compete with the best of the best, maybe you shouldn't be in it.
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We knew we were going to have some problems with pass protection. We knew that coming in. But, obviously, we didn't get it solved during the ballgame and Trent got hit too many times. We had a hard time getting the ball downfield because he couldn't hold onto the ball long enough.
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Last week we did a lot of maximum protection. Tony was in pass protection a lot. Also, tight end stuff takes a little more time downfield. If you get harassed in our play-action passing and that kind of stuff where Tony's a major key in, and the quarterback's getting knocked around, you use less of that.
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Last week we did a lot of maximum protection, ... Tony was in pass protection a lot. Also, tight end stuff takes a little more time downfield. If you get harassed in our play-action passing and that kind of stuff where Tony's a major key in, and the quarterback's getting knocked around, you use less of that.
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I think every time someone misses on somebody that glaringly, they go back and evaluate their reports, evaluate the scouts that wrote the reports. They deeply evaluate the whole situation better and see where they made a mistake, or if they did.
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I think they've demonstrated that they are a playoff-caliber football team. We just didn't get some things done that we had to get done at the time we needed to get them done.
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I don't know how much confidence the team has lost, ... I know that we feel that it's a dead issue. We didn't play well. We showed that to the whole country. Now it's time to go ahead and play the Philadelphia Eagles.