Sylvester Croom
Sylvester Croom
Sylvester Croom, Jr.is an American football coach. He is currently the running backs coach for the NFL's Tennessee Titans. He was the head coach at Mississippi State University from 2004 to 2008, and the first African American head football coach in the Southeastern Conference. His father, Sylvester Croom, Sr., was himself an All-American football player at Alabama A&M, later the team chaplain at the University of Alabama, and has been recognized by that school as one of the state's 40...
defense effort great loose plays sloppy
We were sloppy today. We got another great effort out of our defense. They're making plays and getting turnovers. Loose balls, tipped balls, they're making plays.
alone beat passing plays
If (Burks) plays up to his abilities, that alone is going to make us better in the passing game. In this offense, if you don't have receivers, you're not going to beat anyone.
deal fear hungry people plays
I want him to make people afraid. I want to put fear into them. If he's hungry and plays with some attitude, ain't too many people who are going to deal with him. ...
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The defense has to get off the field. They did play hard and were on the field for a long time. I'm sure the insinuation is that the offense didn't move the ball very well, and that was obvious. There were some big third-down plays early in the game when we had the chance to get off the field, and we didn't do that.
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The most impressive thing about our team right now is that we understand our schemes. We've been in it two years now, and the younger guys have grown up in our systems, and they understand what we're doing from a technique standpoint on offense, defense and in the kicking game. One big emphasis of the spring was that we really wanted to pay attention to details and do the little things right. We continued to work on being physically and mentally tough and on being a team that finishes plays and plays physical football. I think you saw that out there today.
against defense defensive football gained good held key last plays
The key to our defense will be our defensive line. Last year, we held our own against some very good football teams. I think we gained some confidence. Titus has really made some plays in the spring.
plays
How much he plays is still in question.
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What's that Visa commercial? Priceless. Every single day, Coach Bryant and my dad, I think about them a couple of times a day because they are the two men that impacted my life more than anyone else and there isn't a day that goes by when I don't think about them.
grown guys understand
We understand our schemes. We've been in it for two years now, and the young guys have grown up in our system.
penalties
Sometimes we didn't play smart, and we had penalties. Sometimes we got penalties after the play was over. I have to get that corrected; that's on me.
punch
There's not a day where he just comes out to punch a clock.
college nobody
There's nobody around (in college football) like that now,
business normal
There's nothing normal about this situation, so it's not going to be business as usual,
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I think for college football, it is probably as good as you could come up with, ... It still gives the officials another tool to make good decisions with and it doesn't put a lot of pressure on our coaches. And it's probably the most economical way as well.