Dick Jauron Quotes (41 Quotes)

The pressure in the interview process comes when you have that guy in, and he has a really good interview. And you have other people you might want to interview but you know he's been to two places previously and you know he's been offered at two places.

You'll hear me say, 'We've had a terrific draft.' Because you always take people you like and feel are good. But truly, you have to wait and see how it pans out. You may not know how good you did until five years later.

I thought our guys really fought hard. We just made the mistakes that have kind of set us back all year in critical areas.

We love the way he plays the game. We're looking for somebody who can knock people off the ball for us and that can also stretch the field a little bit. He's very athletic for a big guy. He's got that speed, and that will keep some people honest. Primarily we liked how he knocked people off the ball.

We are not going to install much here in a five-week period. We can lean in one direction or another for what is already in, but in a five-week season, which is essentially what we are looking at, you are not going to significantly change anything and hope that they can function. Our practice time is limited.

We love Willis. We'd just love him a little more if he had been here. We know this, he is down there working. We'd just like to get him with our team and working with the guys on those occasions when he can make it.

In our business, it comes out in wins and losses. And if you win, it was a great decision. And if you don't win, it was not a great decision. And we know that our back is against the wall to win.

I believe (the NFL) is the best sports league in the world and it has the most passionate fans. Every place is a little distinct in their passion and when you lose, they're going to let you know. The bottom line for us is working as hard as you can, worki

Not enough to talk about where it's going to be at the beginning of training camp. I'm certainly aware of him. I didn't study him out of college because at that time I wasn't a head coach and only worked on the defensive side. So I am behind in that regard. But he will be part of the personnel study as we move forward. Every position we have will be competitive and open to competition.

We'd like to have him in, but we also understand his position in this thing. It'll straighten itself out over time one way or the other. We obviously value his abilities a great deal.

I don't feel like it has any reflection on our friendship to take this job. This is just business. I felt it was in the best interest of our players and our staff for me to accept this job. That was the reason I took it.

He's been in positions with teams that run a scheme that I like. I've always had a lot of respect for it. It's specific. It follows a teaching progression, I like that. You play fast in it, I like all those things. I trust Perry. It's time for him. I think he'll do a tremendous job.

I will say on the first day of camp, there's a first team penciled in there, but if somebody beats you out, they're going to get the job.

I haven't even thought about it, and we haven't spoken about it.

He has been a credit to the game for a long time. The way he plays it and then his personality outside of it He brings joy to the game and I have always liked that.

I guess the answer would be that we didn't win. That's probably another way of saying Jeff lost it. Saying it that way is a little bit harsh on that person. I can't say enough about Jeff as an unbelievable competitor. It wasn't easy when we talked.

He's a high-quality player and clearly has had a lot of years of high-level play. He's been an integral part of (the team) for a long time.

He is a terrific return man. We knew that. We certainly had worked on not letting that happen, so that was a big disappointment. But there are some times when they just executed better than we did, and that was one of them.

I think that they'll still play in our scheme because they have to play in the scheme. When they don't play in the scheme, you get situations like we got on Thanksgiving Day - different people at different times freelancing to some degree. And when everything goes bad, as it did on that day, the other team seems to find those breakdowns.

There's always going to be movement in personnel, so your schemes, whatever they are, have to fit your present people but they also need to fit who's going to come in. They can't be so complicated that you need four years to teach it and three or four years for guys to develop.

I thought Joey played a good game, a strong game and he handled things well.

When you win, the odds are you're not making any changes. But I'm not going against my Wednesday decision-making process here. But I think you could probably guess.

With Willis and our young right tackle Jason, we feel like we can help our quarterbacks mature, make the game a little easier for them, if we can run the ball successfully, play-action pass, keep some people really honest and fearful of what we're going to do running the football.

We need to play as well as we can play, perform as hard as we can perform and see what we can get out of it.

He's a high-character guy, a high-motor guy. He's a young guy with an upside. He's starting to play really good football. He's got athletic ability to make plays out of the three technique lining up opposite the outside shoulder of a guard.

Perry has some ideas of people he likes and feels comfortable with, and we're going to look in that direction. I think it will be a win-win for everybody. It's a unique situation, and we feel good about making it work out. It doesn't happen very often in this business that a coach gets to go home and his family gets to go home, too.

I like Steve because I like his background. I like the variety of ways he's coached. I'm a big believer in the fact you've got to do it all to win in our league. You've got to be able to throw it creatively but you've got to be able to run it. He's had a background in both.

You hope one of them rises quicker and takes the job. It'll be interesting to watch. We'll be watching, you'll be watching, we'll be talking about it I'm sure.

First, it is hard for me to picture that as a pass -- it looks more like a fumble. On the holding call, I'm probably seeing what I want to see, but it looked to me like it was in the end zone.

In the present day NFL, you're going to have changes in your personnel every year, so your scheme - whatever it may be - is going to have to be flexible. You can't have a system that needs three or four years.

I remember more the players than all the other stuff, but it was a wild day. It obviously ended up being a terrific draft for us.

They (Steelers) had everything to play and they performed well. I thought our guys performed well. I thought our guys fought hard. We had the same kind of mistakes that set us back all year.

We knew we had enough time to kick it. It's the way it should have been. Thankfully, we have Jason.

You like to have the numbers. It's obvious to say, but it's critically important who you pick and how it pans out. You've got to be a little bit lucky because it's not an exact science. You have to give the money to the right guys in free agency and you'v

The only thing I'll promise to do is everything I can to fulfill my obligation to bring a winning team back to Buffalo. There's a great winning tradition here, we know the fans are very passionate and it's something we're very passionate about.

Offenses are spreading you out all over the field today. You see four and sometimes even five receivers on the field. The game is a little bit different - a lot different - than it was a number of years ago.

That's the kind of players we targeted. There's no law that says we can't or won't bring in older players here. But we were looking for guys who, if we're right about them, will be with us for three to five to seven years.

I love this position. I'll wait to see what occurs.

You certainly invest a lot of time and money into gathering your information, so it makes no sense to be free with it or give it away to anybody. Particularly at the top of the draft, people are pretty close.

Somebody will be named heading into camp, but there is always going to be competition. We'll try to name that guy going through the spring, but if we don't, we don't. We hope to have a feeling.

You gotta get lucky, in some terms. You gotta get on some players who maybe don't think they're that good and they play a lot better than they are. You gotta get on it in terms of injury, and then you have to make the right choices personnel-wise. The ones you think are going to be players, they all gotta be players and they gotta play up to it, so it's possible, definitely possible.