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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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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Everybody wants difference makers and everybody wants great players. Sometimes, you get a great player that's not a team player and then you have a great player on your team and he might not help you win games.
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We are playing the best rush defense in the National Football League, so I hope we have that problem. You always want your players to achieve goals, but I don't think that is a game plan going in. We are just trying to play it as it comes on.
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What you try to do is get guys to understand their role. They may not like being second team, but when they do get an opportunity to play, they take advantage of that opportunity. . . . We've got a lot of players like that.
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You're not really sure how much you're going to reshape your team. What you try to do is get the best players in to compete, and those players eventually separated themselves on who's starters, who's second team and who doesn't make the squad.
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Our guys aren't as big as some. But they do have great speed. We really thrive on speed with our defense. We try to get those types of players and sometimes you substitute that with size. Our linebackers do have good speed.
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I watch a lot of college film, not only looking at what different colleges do from an offense and defensive standpoint, but also evaluating players, ... so we do that quite a bit during the off-season. Especially a team like LSU, who has a number of players (in draft consideration) year-in and year-out.
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He can take some visitors, so that's a good sign. We'll have a number of players and coaches going over there this afternoon, but they still want him to rest. (The doctors) feel very good about his progress.
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Any time you get a veteran player who has proven he can play in the National Football League, he's going to have a chance,
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The minute he walked into that room, he got a standing ovation. Every player and coach was on his feet. I didn't expect that, but it was just one of those moments that you cherish. Then Jerry spoke to the team for 10 minutes. It just showed the respect that he has earned.
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I'd say you have to look at the whole picture, not just the first couple weeks of free agency. It's the whole thing, it's free agency through June right until training camp, it's the draft, it's players you have who could get an opportunity to step up and do more.
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I am not sure how anybody treats a regular-season game like an exhibition game. The big difference is that when you play your last pre-season game, there are 65 players on your team. You have a chance to play your second unit.
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That's why you bring in a veteran player. You never know when a player goes down, a guy's got to step up and play.
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We just want him to get better and ready for the regular season. I have no worries he'll be ready.