Mike Shanahan
Mike Shanahan
Michael Edward Shanahanis a former American football coach who has been the head coach of the Los Angeles Raiders, Denver Broncos, and Washington Redskins of the National Football League. He led the Broncos to back-to-back Super Bowl victories in 1998 and 1999...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth24 August 1952
CityOak Park, IL
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When you have your second, third or fourth back that knows the system, you can throw him in there every day. That is why it's tough to pick a guy up during the season, because you actually want that guy to contribute to the team.
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When you have four starters out of the game as we do, you have to have everybody else playing. If you did play your second unit, who would play special teams?
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When you do that, it makes it hard for your defense to play four quarters at the level that we expect them to play. We did not do a very good job on offense. I can not put my thumb on it, because there was some great effort, guys played hard, but you have to have eleven guys out there playing together. One guy here (and) one guy there just doesn't get it done.
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We have Rod Smith and Ashley Lelie and beyond that there are some question marks for the third, fourth and fifth spots, ... The obvious ones are Darius Watts and we all know what he can do and Jerry Rice, who we know what he's done throughout his career.
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We got behind in Miami and threw the ball quite a bit in the fourth quarter,
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We've done a good job through the season, but that fourth quarter wasn't one of our better quarters when it came to run defense.
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We'll just get up a little earlier, watch the (video) from the game, have our meeting and go from there. We'll just have about four hours instead of 24. But it's got to be done.
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They just assumed the guy was down. You gotta tackle them. You have to have three or four guys hit him. They just assumed he was down.
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The Giants did what they had to do to win. We had our opportunities in the third and fourth quarters, couldn't take advantage of them, and they took advantage of theirs on that last drive.
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We knew it was going to be difficult to come in here and deal with the elements in their backyard,
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I don't think along those terms until it happens. You've got an off-season to go through at the end of the season and you've got a procedure you go through every year. It's always nice to have a couple extra draft picks, and you're hoping when it's time, you get a couple good players out of it.
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We knew he had those type of abilities. He's just been hampered by injuries.
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You hope he can step up in games like he does it in practice, but he hasn't done it yet.
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You hope a guy can step up in games and do it like he does it in practice,