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
We'll have to evaluate that based on Jerome's injury and after we've looked at the tape.
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.
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.
There's only one job out there right now.
The timing was just a little bit off. He still had a little residual soreness. But he took all the snaps today.
The running game is always going to be important for us. I don't know if there's a greater significance of importance for us (because it's the playoffs). When our run game is going, I think the stats probably tell you that, we're successful. We do still have to throw the ball. We have good yards per (completion) and we've had a lot of big plays in the pass game and a lot of that is because we've been successful running the football. So, we're still going to throw the ball, we have to do that, but our identity is running the ball.
Coach and I talked about that at the end of the preseason and he was concerned about where we were from passing game standpoint.
The thing that was exciting to see was how tough a runner he was inside.
You're going to have days that aren't your best days at quarterback, no matter who you are,
You never know when he's going to snap the ball. If you're trying to disguise and he quick-snaps you, you're caught out of place.
It was weird because usually with teams that have had a pass rush we've always been pretty solid in our protection, ... Our line does a good job. It's unfortunate, but we didn't play our best game. We have some things we can work on. We'll work on those things and we'll be better next time we play.
(Our) thinking was since they (Colts) had all of their time outs, taking knees would give the ball back to them. Besides, how often does Jerome fumble the ball? Almost never. It was just a crazy thing.
If they did (open bracket)call(close bracket), I'd listen. I can't say I wouldn't.