Tom Rossley

Tom Rossley
Tom Rossleyis an American football coach and former player. He served as the senior assistant and quarterbacks coach for the Texas A&M Aggies football team from 2008-11. Rossley was the head football coach at Southern Methodist University from 1991 to 1996, compiling a record of 15–48–3...
count david hope martin run step tough
If we don't have Bubba, we hope that David Martin will be able to step up and do a lot of the things that Bubba can do. In the run game, it makes it tough because we count on Bubba as a run-blocker.
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If they come back -- when they come back -- it will be an added boost. (It will be) another shot of adrenaline to get those playmakers back. And I consider Robert Ferguson and David Martin guys who can make plays.
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We've got to get our run game going, so we'll miss him there. But we've got David Martin, who I think will be at full speed, Donald Lee is learning more and more, and we've got Ben Steele.
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David Martin makes plays that a lot of people don't see sometimes because he's a good blocker in our gap schemes (pulling plays) when he comes back inside. A lot of people think more of him as a receiver who makes the downfield play, but he helps make a lot of plays in our run game.
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We're very happy with the way Aaron has played. He's learned our offense and he's continued to get better throughout training camp.
game score tied
We score right there and you play the game different. It's tied up.
early keeping third
Brett was sharp. Early on, you could tell he was going to have one of his days. He was converting third downs, keeping us on the field.
conditions fought
Did we execute? I don't think we executed the way we want to execute. But for the first go-round, the conditions and all, they fought and battled.
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(Cover 2) is not a good run defense. In this league, you've got to be able to run the ball when people are defending the pass.
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There's no question we're going to look at Craig a lot this week. He's ready and he's anxious to play.
fixed game question run
There's no question that's the No. 1 thing we've got to get fixed between now and the Vikings game. We have to get our run game going.
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The tough thing on (Franklin) is we get some new guys in like he's got this week, that means he's got to find time to individually spoon-feed all those players and teach them our system. Who knows how quickly we're going to need them? We could lose a couple more this week.
chances direction hit hoped late tough
We had hoped to go in that direction more so than we were able to. It hit us late in the week, which was kind of a tough hurdle. But our chances were there.
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Whoever we've got, we'll line 'em up. We'll go to whoever is healthy and ready to play.