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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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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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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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'll wait until tomorrow. Maybe he'll end up being just like Tony Richardson.
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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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There are a lot of votes in this building. There are a lot of opinions.
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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.
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(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.
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The Raiders deserve to be world champions. They dominated us.
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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,
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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.
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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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Todd had an excellent practice, ... He's a good football player. He has never been given the opportunity to demonstrate what he could do.
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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.