Herman Edwards
Herman Edwards
Herman "Herm" Edwards, Jr.is an American football analyst who most recently coached in the National Football League for the Kansas City Chiefs. Since 2009, he has been a pro football analyst for ESPN. He played cornerback for 10 seasonswith the Philadelphia Eagles, Los Angeles Rams and Atlanta Falcons. Prior to his coaching career, Edwards was known best as the player who recovered a fumble by Giants quarterback Joe Pisarcik on a play dubbed "The Miracle at the Meadowlands."...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth27 April 1954
CityFort Monmouth, NJ
I've never been around a 41-year-old guy who was taking his kids to school and all of a sudden he's a starting quarterback.
I've always had great expectations for defense. Your mind-set as a coach, you know you win with defense, you sell tickets with offense. They understand where I'm coming from. You grow up on one side of the ball you always feel that way.
Sometimes you look at it and say, 'Where's he throwing the ball?' Then Laveranues comes in and catches it.
You're talking about a guy who was sitting at home, and he came in and got us off the carpet.
You're positive going into this game, and you're excited, but you don't know.
You need to make some plays to get energy. We haven't made enough big plays on either side of the ball. That's what happens to teams that are losing. That's what's happening to us.
Quarterbacks are paid to win and he won.
If we had to play tomorrow, ... Kingsbury would be our starting quarterback.
I don't hope this happens to any coach. Ever. Ever. Ever.
I don't even know, ... I'm not trying to start a quarterback controversy and say who the quarterback is. Anything is possible. But I'm not saying we're switching, I'm not saying that.
No one called me up from the booth saying we should challenge it. That's what those guys are supposed to do. I didn't get a phone call.
Monday Night Football and the bubble-gum card ? that was kind of important being in the league if you could do that.
Monday Night Football' and the bubble-gum card -- that was kind of important being in the league if you could do that.
I anticipate doing the same thing. You do (want to play them more), but you also understand the big picture. For the most part, what we have to do is we have to have a good practice session this week. I think it's very, very important to get some continuity going with our offense. It really just boils down to what we're going to become on offense and play to our strengths. That's the whole key between now and when we open up at Kansas City.