Ken Whisenhunt
Ken Whisenhunt
Kenneth Moore Whisenhuntis an American football coach who is the offensive coordinator for the San Diego Chargers of the National Football League. Whisenhunt was head coach of the Arizona Cardinals from 2007 to 2012 and Tennessee Titans from 2014 to 2015. He led the Cardinals to their first Super Bowl appearance in franchise history during the 2008 season, as well as their first home playoff games in 60 years. Previously, he was known for his offensive background, including the success...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth28 February 1962
CityAugusta, GA
When you have a different receiver every day, there's timing issues involved. The thing I've been most pleased with is, a lot of times, we're just missing (on pass attempts). Ben's getting it to the right spot, so hopefully, it's just a timing issue with all the different guys out there.
When I was finished after the 1993 season, there was something missing. After being involved with it for so long, when Saturday and Sunday rolled around and football was going on and you weren't involved, there was a void there.
Whenever he is in there, he is a threat and you never know what he is going to do. That gives you more of an element of unpredictability.
We knew that on the second play -- because of the way they played it last time -- we'd have a chance. We'd fake the (run). We thought (safety Mike Doss) might run past the guy, and that's what happened.
Bill said, 'You know what, this is a one-game season from now on. That's the mentality we played with. Leave nothing in the bag.
We've been pleased with what we've seen in some of our pass-catchers, ... I think, once they all get their timing down, we have a chance to make some plays in the passing game. Ben is working well with those guys.
What Ben saw was good, ... He trusted it, which is what you want him to do. And then I told him, 'You just gotta trust your guy to make a play.'
We sit in the room as a staff, everybody has input, we have our arguments, we have our fights.
We had the protection and we felt good that the protection was going to hold up. It was funny because we ran it in practice the other day and it worked almost exactly like that.
We felt good about the line going into the season. Then we had some problems.
We've had a couple situations in a game where we wanted to get him the ball. But, for whatever reason, the coverage hasn't worked out right and we've had to throw the check-down or we got blitzed on the play.
We've had a couple situations in a game where we wanted to get him the ball, ... But, for whatever reason, the coverage hasn't worked out right and we've had to throw the check-down or we got blitzed on the play.
We'll have to evaluate that based on Jerome's injury and after we've looked at the tape.
We almost called that play once or twice earlier in the game. But the spot we were at on the field was what we had targeted would be a good spot for us to do it.