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
gotten guys job
We've got a lot of young guys that have gotten on the job training.
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There is no question in my mind that we have more playmaking ability in our special teams than we've had at any point in time we've been here.
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I thought we ran the ball well and our first- and second-down passing was much improved. It seems like you have something you have to go to work on every week. That is just kind of where we are right now. Our third down was affected by our pass protection. We are trying to look at a couple different combinations to hopefully help us move forward in that area.
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To me, the worst thing you can do is do too many things, where the players are uncertain. I don't think they play as aggressive. The most important thing is, come Sunday, that they're confident and feel good going out there. They know exactly what to do, and they know exactly how to do it.
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You look at Pittsburgh and New England. Normally, this is a copycat league. When teams are having success, people are always going to study what they are doing. I also think things go in cycles ... I think it swung back the other way a little bit.
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To beat a good football team like Jacksonville, you've got to convert all of your opportunities.
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We know Jacksonville has an excellent team and in order for us to go over and compete with their team, there are some areas we have to improve in. But yesterday was a very positive step and we're obviously happy to get our first win.
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We'll get it squared away. We weren't able to get the kind of consistency we wanted moving the ball because we were using different combinations (of players).
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The defense did an outstanding job on third down. Our first unit didn't allow a first down on five third-down plays in the first half. The thing we've got to continue to work on is not giving up the big play. They had runs of 23, 21 and 15 yards.
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Overall, we improved as a football team yesterday. We did more of the things it takes to go in and compete and win a game.
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Our plan is to have him do a little more in practice. Hopefully, he'll respond the way we hope he'll respond, and in that case he'll be the starter.
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Our responsibility was to win football games, and we made good strides the first three seasons, but we didn't get it done this year. I'm disappointed that things had to end this way.
expect hidden hole win
You put yourself in such a hole and give up that much hidden yardage. You can't do that and expect to win in the NFL.
learn
You don't want to have years like this. I told the guys, you have to learn from this.