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'll wait until tomorrow. Maybe he'll end up being just like Tony Richardson.
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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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There are organized plots and plans to get you one way or the other. But every once in a while someone gets trapped. We always assume our players are not guilty of any major problem until someone really clarifies it for us.
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We're not concerned about the playoffs. Right now our concern is playing well Saturday. That's all that matters. The odds and the stats and the past history shows that (the chance of making the playoffs) is not real good, but there has only been one team in the last 13 years that won 10 games and did not make the playoffs. We have a chance to win 10, but you can't do that until you win No. 9. For us, it's all about Saturday.
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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.
It was the right thing for us to do. And it made me look smart.
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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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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.
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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.
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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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We had pass-protection problems, ... He was getting hit a lot, and that throws you off a little.
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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.
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I've always followed it, ... At one time, I thought I was going to be a driver, not a football coach.
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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.