Ray Rhodes
Ray Rhodes
Raymond Earl Rhodesis a former senior defensive assistant for the Cleveland Browns. He is also the former American football head coach of the Philadelphia Eagles and the Green Bay Packers. Rhodes is the former assistant defensive backs coach of the Houston Texans, and earned five Super Bowl rings as an assistant coach with the San Francisco 49ers. He was named Coach of the Year by The Associated Press in 1995, his first season as a head coach...
keeping offense points prevent score total washington yards
That's right. It's very simple. To prevent the 'Skins from scoring, we must concentrate on one thing: keeping the Washington offense on the field. How do you score 17 points on 120 yards of total offense?
excited trust
I still don't trust myself. I can get a little too excited at any time.
football good guys hang pressure trying waver
There's pressure on me. There's pressure on our whole football team. I'm not one of those guys that's trying to hang on to a job. If I'm not good enough to get things done, I shouldn't be here. And I will never waver from that.
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You look at his leadership and the way he carries himself on and off the field. This kid stepped in right away, and all the players migrated to him. He had a command in the huddle, and the leadership just oozes out of him.
feeling regular work
I still work regular hours. I'm feeling a lot better.
action guys played shaping
With the guys being down and injured, have not played in live action yet, we need to see everybody. The way things are shaping up, we're getting guys back one at a time.
wait
My daughter, who is a nurse, said I was having a stroke. Wait a minute, I said.
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When you look at a coach's life, you are looking at coming to work each day before 6 o'clock and leaving sometime after 12. If you have to be at work before 6, you are up around 4 something. You can't do that on a consistent basis. I think I burned both ends a little bit too much.
health soul
Without your health you have nothing. It made me do some soul searching.
care taking
You try to put things in perspective, about taking care of yourself and being healthy. Without your health, you don't have anything. That made me do some soul-searching.
hardly next stand thinking wake
I wake up the next day - my balance, my vision, everything is gone. I couldn't hardly see anything. I couldn't stand up straight. My equilibrium was gone. So, something was wrong. Being a little stubborn, I'm thinking that it's going to go away.
bed fell tried
I tried to get out of bed and I fell down.
days finish happen hurts line sticking thinking
It hurts you in your gut. It hurts you all over. There's not very many days that you go through that it's not sticking in your craw. When you line up, when you finish up. You're always thinking about that because you don't want that to happen again.
against evaluate guys valuable
We want to look at the players. We've got to get guys snaps. Guys have to get valuable snaps, so we can evaluate against other teams.