Dick Vermeil Quotes (120 Quotes)

I thought it might be popped, a tear where his muscle rolled up, that tissue, muscle tissue rolled up. But that did not happen.

Ryan Sims is going for a second opinion, flying to (North) Carolina as requested by (team physician) Dr. Jon Browne. We're hopeful it will only be a minimum time he's missing.

Every time we got something going, we had penalties. You can overcome the five-yard penalties. But personal fouls and holding penalties

The trouble is today everything is evaluated on whether you won a Super Bowl or not. Believe me, that's not the No. 1 criteria. It's the easiest for those that don't know what they're doing to evaluate.

When he found out his dad was located, he came upstairs to my office, knocked on the door and came walking in (and said), 'Coach, they found my dad,' ... He was real excited, and relieved.

I'm very, very concerned. I've been trying all afternoon to get information. I haven't heard from anybody.

Regardless of what excuse we want to make, we have to do a better job of getting the ball to Tony Gonzalez 's hands, ... He set an all-time record in the history of the National Football League with 102 catches last year and I'm certainly not going to panic because he's not at that pace right now.

Hes big, strong and fast. He runs with anger. Hes mad when he carries the ball. You dont see him duck and dive.

Believe me, if the situation comes up again, the lesson he learned from there will be to turn around and walk away.

You worry about it not working if you have the wrong kind of people, but they're both unselfish, they really are. Granted, Priest may not have 1,600 yards, but together, they'll have more than that.

I think he's brought defined purpose to the football team. Everything they do, there is a reason. There is a specific plan of action. I think he's brought leadership and discipline to the football team and direction - all things that leaders are hired to bring beyond Xs and Os.

He's going through a battery of tests. Some of these tests aren't just five-minute deals, ... They take sophisticated equipment and sophisticated people to administer. We'll know a lot better tomorrow.

I think our defense is better than we played (Monday) night and I think our offense is better, but obviously we proved we don't play super every weekend, ... They whipped me, they whipped my coaches and they whipped my football team.

If the team plays real well and it looks like the way we do things is capable of producing a good football team, then I might stay, ... I'm just going to play it out and see what happens.

That kind of guy, as you saw, most of the time somebody was on him, but he just wins the battle physically, one-on-one. They do a great job of throwing him the ball. It's just a one-on-one situation, and he wins that battle.

It's the right time for me to go. It's the right time for me to leave the Chiefs. They don't want a guy where every year they say 'Is he going to be here' It's just not fair.

There's nothing like having talent. Our draft and free agency were good, and then the maturity of the kids that were already here blended together. Talented athletes make more tackles than average athletes.

We've got to go down there and be the best football team they could send down there. There's an opportunity to go win a football game.

Two or three of those times was when the quarterback was hit in the backfield and then Owens came out and bought time down field, ... Terrell Owens is a great football player.

And I appreciated it very much. To have the opportunity to work for Lamar and Norma Hunt and work with Carl and these people I love very much has been a real, real bonus for me.

I don't want to put so much pressure on him right now as a young player. He will become one of the great running backs in the National Football League just like Priest Holmes did. You become that. But each time he steps on the field he adds credibility to those kinds of credentials.

The big thing, ... is what these kids are all made out of. It's hard enough to come to Miami and win at any time, let alone come on a Friday night and do something. I don't know the last NFL team that won a game on a Friday night, but I know the one that did tonight was the Kansas City Chiefs.

I think we do ... as good as the best job in the National Football League of making sure players are aware of their vulnerability, their profile. There's no place to hide in Kansas City. Our fans know our players. (We tell players) to use common sense and to be aware of the problem areas. Stay out of the bad areas. Be alert for certain things.

Some people see Priest going out there on Saturday for the first time and say, 'What's he doing' ... He's poised to have a great season.

You can't ask guys to play harder than they did today.

I remember how I felt after the last play. It made all the stress and the hard work worthwhile.

Our biggest concern going to Denver is to maintain run discipline,

I think we'll be better at stopping stuff like that. We'll have better recognition on the part of our defensive line. Our other packages include some things that bring people off the corners and sometimes make you leery of running quarterback (bootlegs).

You saw what a real man's made of. There might be a number of you who don't come close to understanding what a real man's all about because you're not forced into the environment like people in our responsible positions are. But I think he told you the truth as well as he could tell you.

I don't know who wrote that, but it's bull. You can quote me on that. Just like I was run out of St. Louis, that's ... people make a living on speculation. They're an embarrassment to the media.

That kind of motivation brings tears to my eyes, ... as do thoughts of Priest Holmes playing in week thirteen.

I thought it would be tough to run on these guys like we have because they've improved their down four (linemen). They had more than just three different guys than they had last year.

If I feel good and the team's playing well and I'm pleasing (owner) Lamar Hunt and Carl, then I'll make a decision. If not, then I don't want to put them in a position to fire me. I'll go on home.

We knew we were going to have some problems with pass protection. We knew that coming in, ... But, obviously, we didn't get it solved during the ballgame and Trent got hit too many times. We had a hard time getting the ball downfield because he couldn't hold onto the ball long enough.

I think they've demonstrated that they are a playoff-caliber football team. We just didn't get some things done that we had to get done at the time we needed to get them done.

You can see why they're in the Super Bowl. We could play with them for a long time but not long enough to beat them.

He's got good hands. He's got a feel for the game. To my knowledge, he's never been the starter. That's the difference now, he is the starter. He is our guy. We expect him to step up and play like that athlete that you all saw out there.

He runs with an attitude. He's running to punish the tacklers. He's better right now than last year by far.

They couldn't have picked a better team to send down there and play well that's the way we're approaching it. We'll go down there and play our best football game of the year. The guys are in a good frame of mind. They accept it. We would have liked it to be a different way, but we have no choice.

A position isn't going to be handed to him in a Christmas package. He's going to have to compete, and he knows that. I didn't really actively recruit hard to get this guy. I wanted him to come on his own.

We're realistic. But I'm not going to say we're not going to be (in the playoffs). The only thing I'm going to do is try to control the things that we have control of. If we'd controlled it better earlier, we wouldn't be in the situation we're in.

Our defense wasn't good enough today. We know we have some flaws just like the Colts understand they have some flaws. The Colts gave up 400-plus yards today. But they're going on and we're not. We are aware that we've had some defensive problems all year, but we didn't think we had as many problems as we had today.

We picked a guy that can make a more immediate impact to the success of our football team now than anybody we would have picked in the first round. There wasn't anybody in the first round who could come in and do for us what Trent Green can do for us. That's a fact.

I might do it. I thought about it last week.

They hit (Green) too many times, and that's a credit to the guys on the other side of the field wearing that lightning bolt on their helmet.

What we want Priest to do is get healthy and get ready to play next year. And we've got to get this football team ready to play. That's the cold, harder part of this business. It just keeps right on going.

He's home. He's fine, and he's been checked out by the doctor. It shook him up.

They put together a great game plan, and they executed. They knew what they had to do, and they tore us apart.

They sort of got the monkey off their back today. We had a chance to come back in the fourth quarter, and they didn't allow it. That's a good football team.

I think that is a small price to pay for the right guy. To me, there have been a ton of first-round flops. . . . You get the right coach, he will change your organization.