Dom Capers
Dom Capers
Ernest Dominic Capersis an American football coach who is the defensive coordinator for the Green Bay Packers of the National Football League. Capers served as the head coach for the NFL's Carolina Panthers from 1995 and 1998 and for the Houston Texans from 2002 to 2005. He is the only person to serve two different NFL expansion teams as their inaugural head coach...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth7 August 1950
hope learn
My hope is we learn from some of the things we did.
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You have to be careful and stay with your step-by-step program. Then, you have to have the courage to stick with it and not sacrifice the future for the quick fix.
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When you look at backgrounds, I think we've got very similar philosophies. That always makes it easier, too, if you know the person you're going to work for, you know what their philosophy is.
We've got to be able to run. It's not a secret. They want to attack. They want to get us on our heels. We know what we have to do.
wrong
We've had more go wrong than we have go right.
banks confidence number starter sure tony total
Tony Banks has been a starter in the past, and I'm sure he could start for a number of teams. We have total confidence in Tony Banks.
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We like Jamie. It basically came down to, you can't have everybody you that you like to have with the salary cap situation the way it is.
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We can't be a sloppy team and expect to play winning football. We have to be an efficient team with an eye to detail to win games.
believe
We believe ... he will be out for the year.
billy catch decisions feelings guy hopefully opportunity strong team tougher wish
It's one of the tougher decisions we've had to make because you have such strong feelings about Billy and the kind of team guy he's been. We wish him well and hopefully he has an opportunity to catch on with another team.
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I've known Nick for a very long time and have the utmost respect for the job he has done at every coaching position he has held. I appreciate the opportunity he has given me, and I'm looking forward to working with him and his staff in any way I can to help the organization achieve its goals.
anybody hard league quite
It's hard to think of anybody in the league that's quite like him right now.
tough year
It's been a tough year. You never want to have another year like this one.
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We decided that we needed to make a move to improve our offense. We promoted Joe to offensive coordinator because we feel that he will be able to help us turn this around.