Pete Kendall Quotes (34 Quotes)


    I love his defiance. People are so quick to bury him. People can't look past (his age). Only three guys statistically have done it better (Smith, Payton and Sanders). Maybe they should rethink their definition of elite.

    He's not a Hall of Fame quarterback right now, but we're not going to ask Brooks to throw for 400 yards or run our offense like Peyton Manning. With the package that the coaches have installed thus far, he's more than capable of handling it.

    Would (a win) have been nice Yeah, but I don't think anybody expected commissioner (Paul) Tagliabue to call the season in the middle of October.

    I appreciate Jets fans I understand why they like to say Reggie Bush. As players, we're auditioning 16 games a season. A season like this, there tends to be quite a bit of turnover. I'm not playing to lose so we'll be a better team next year.

    You don't want to see them get hurt. Whether it's your guy or not is immaterial.


    There was a little bit of good cop, bad cop in our locker room and in the meeting rooms.

    He won a rushing title last season, so the bar was set rather high,

    We were able to keep him up a little bit better. We were able to run the ball a little bit better. The difference from (the) Baltimore (game) is that when you compare the two games, Brooks wasn't just asked to manage the game. He took some chances down the field. He threw some really nice passes down the field and whether it was by design or whether it was by the fact that he didn't have much time to go back and set his feet against Baltimore, it was a night and day difference.

    I think one hand washes the other. The protection was good, but we were able to complete passes on short drops.

    I expect the fans that do show up will probably be the ones who want to come out and boo. That has sort of been the swing the crowd tenor has taken the last two home games. . . . The people in New York, the Jets fans, are disappointed, and rightly so.

    We had a meal and a couple of beers. It was a nice night. I really looked forward to buying him another beer sometime down the road.

    I thought we had a good play and the coaches felt like we had a good play for that front we expected to see,

    Typically, the first thing the center has to do is, as we call it, set the defense, ... Really, you're identifying the middle linebacker ... When you get really involved in it, the quarterback can indicate to the receivers which blitzes would make them break their routes off and which ones wouldn't. A lot of that depends on how I've set the front.

    The biggest surprise would be if Curt couldn't play,

    We all know Curtis is a tough guy. He's going to play if he can play. It wasn't like our jobs could have gotten much harder anyway with these defences coming up. It's going to be a tough mountain to climb regardless.

    They're studs, ... They're big and they move like basketball players. They should be illegal.

    Technical analysis has survived and developed over the years because it is a highly practical discipline. It gets away from speculating about causes, which may or may not be applicable, and makes do with the information the market itself provides.

    I hope my agent negotiates my part in the Disney movie,

    I'm no defensive coordinator, ... but I would think looking at us from the outside, you have a guy that hasn't really played much at this level coming in at the middle of the season. You're going to try and take away their running game and dictate the passing situations. It's been hard enough already. My guess is that it's going to be a lot harder to run the ball in the immediate future before things get any better.

    I think some of it is a bit of the chicken or the egg. Has the offense struggled because we've been bad Or have we struggled because the offense has The truth is probably a little bit of both.

    It seems like a long time since we've done anything.

    I think we'd like to see the quarterback stay a little bit cleaner. No matter how well you run it, you'd like to run it better. No matter how well you protect, you'd like to protect better. We've been a little bit hit or miss in the run game.

    The loss of Pat brings it home. Everyday there are countless families having to get the same news.

    It's so much better to have them out there to point that out on Wednesday and have it cost somebody five bucks in a meeting room than to make that mistake on Sunday and have it cost us 5 yards.

    It's like my golf game, ... I think my way around the course and try to stay out of trouble.

    It was hard enough already, and my guess is that it's going to get a lot harder to run the ball in the immediate future. If they stack the box, and make up their mind that you're not going to run the ball, I don't care who you are, you're not going to run the ball.

    I didn't think blue collar necessarily meant ugly.

    If they're going to start over, I would imagine that quite a few of us will be gone. If they're just going to chalk this one up to bad luck and injuries and try to get better with the guys who are due to come back, maybe it will just be the normal amount of change.

    I don't think it will be difficult. That's probably the kiss of death right there. What quarterbacks are looking for is a consistent snap, wherever that may be. As long as I consistently get it there, we should be OK.

    I don't blame anybody for not wanting to sit next to me, ... I wouldn't have wanted to sit next to me. I stunk tonight. I cost us the game. My mistakes were disasters.

    I think I have the same concerns that every center has, that you're going to wind up on 'NFL Follies,' that you'll dribble one back or throw one over his head, ... I don't think it'll be difficult. Now that's probably the kiss of death right there.

    They didn't have to put me in a room without a balcony or anything. I have a little bit of perspective. It's tremendously disappointing. It's hard for me to be in the locker room knowing what I cost these guys Monday night. Everybody at some point or another is going to go through something similar to this. I hope it's not as well broadcast as my failures were, but I think the other guys in here recognize on any given night that could be them.

    Believe it or not this isn't the worst I've ever been beat on opening day, let alone beat at all. Unfortunately I've got more experience coming back from something like this than I care to have.

    Curtis is a special player in the history of this league. But like everybody else, we all are replaceable parts. You don't necessarily get equal value. But the beat goes on. We've had to replace a whole bunch of people. At some point, everybody gets injured.


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