Romeo Crennel Quotes (128 Quotes)

We said if we got the ball to the 22 or 23 we had the opportunity for a field goal. We thought we would put it on Phil because he's been consistent for us all year. The problem was we got the penalty and that hurt us.

Everyone wants to get started and get moving forward for the next year. The more time it takes, the more they feel like they're getting behind. Particularly when other teams make choices by hiring coaches and they don't want to be the last guy standing.

The punter did good and for him to go out in the conditions and punt the way he did was good. He made a good tackle on the return. I'm sure his confidence is lifted after that performance. He's been in the NFL and it's a production business and he went out there and produced and helped us to win.

You see him try to reach the ball over. Evidently, in the official's mind, he thought (Heap) had control of the ball when he first touched it, so that's why he called it a touchdown. I will probably ask the officials to take a look at that and see what they think about it.

They're making you throw the ball in front of them and using their speed to make the plays. They're fast.

Reuben had a little drama in his life early in the week. But I think that with the support of his teammates, he felt like he had the team behind him.

If we can get him on the field and get him some playing time, I think that would be good. It'd be good just to get him out there in pads, get him used to his teammates and the communication that's involved.

I had no illusions about where we would be. As long as we make progress, then I feel that we're headed in the right direction. I think that's one of the things that we have to do with this team - we have to get it going in the right direction.

In this business, when you're hot, you're hot, and when you're not, you're not, ... You never know what the next year brings.

We didn't play very good at all. We didn't bring any energy in the second half. It was a good opportunity for us to get a win, but we didn't take advantage of it.

I hope not. But it could be.

It was close. It's a judgment call by the official,

It would have to be my gut feeling. If I got a real bad feeling about the way it was going and I wanted to make a change, that's what it would be.

Some of that was by circumstance. We wanted to move a guy and they wanted two guys in a trade. That position, looking at it, wasn't as productive as it needed to be. I felt we had other people who fit better, so some of them had to leave. As football coaches, you like to think you can coach everybody and anybody, but sometimes you have to recognize that you can't.

As soon as Trent gave it to me, I said, 'This game ball belongs to the 2005 Cleveland Browns,' because it was a team effort. I think that they deserve it because they are the ones who applied themselves, went to Green Bay and were able to pull out that victory.

They had some ability here. Every NFL team has ability. We came in and changed some systems. We decided to do something a little bit different. Maybe all of the pieces here don't exactly fit, but we added some guys to the team who we feel will help us build this team to where we want it to be.

Wellington knew the business, ... He knew football in and out. He knew good coaches and bad coaches, good players and bad players, and he always had an affection for coaches and players.

The penalties picked up in some crucial situations and on two punt returns and on a field goal that would've clinched the victory. We missed the re-kick to add some drama to the game.

I think Carolina would be a good game anytime because they are a good team. I told the team that two years ago Carolina was in the Super Bowl. If it hadn't been for the injuries they had last year they might have been back there again.

What I have to try to do is get guys to do their job to the best of their ability and make good choices while they're doing that. You have to make good choices while you're out there. Then, if you find out a guy cannot make good choices, you need to try to replace him.

It would be great to just get a victory. I really don't care who it's against.

He still works hard and runs good routes. If anything, he's had one or two drops at critical situations that if he had made those plays, we would say that his training camp continued to the regular season. He made those drops, and that shows a sign of inconsistency.

It's another Wednesday in the NFL. The attitude is better coming off a victory, and it should be. The attention span is better. The preparation should be better. We'll find out if that results in a better performance.

The young kid, Charlie, did a pretty decent job overall. He handled himself well in situations where he was in trouble. He was able to get out of trouble and maintain his cool.

Gary's experience on a dominant defense and the attitude he brings to the game will certainly enhance our efforts on the defensive side of the ball,

Everybody has expectations, and that's an individual thing, ... They are what they are. This team is 1-2 right now. Until we can win another game, that's what we are, and our fans should look at it that way.

The thing I've been talking to my team about is that even though it's Ohio, it's still one game and we still have a lot of games we're going to have to play after this one.

He's into the game, and he's always been into the game since the very first game. He's up, and he's energetic and he tries to get the guys around him involved. I think the way he played yesterday got the guys around him involved, particularly the offensive line.

(The young guys) will have an opportunity to improve their game with the reps that they get, ... Sometimes you won't get a chance to see that improvement on the field until something happens. I don't know who that will be, but hopefully all of them will gain experience and confidence as a result of the time they get this week.

It's rumors like that which cause guys to start thinking about what their role is. I shouldn't have to waste time shooting down these rumors, but I do it to keep my player in a great frame of mind so he can give his best performance on the field.

Just about every situation he's gone in, he's been able to move the team. He hasn't been perfect by any stretch of the imagination, but he has some pocket presence, he can evade the rush, he can make plays and he has made plays. That's why I think he can do it.

I don't think (ESPN) knows exactly what they're talking about. I'll tell you what I told the team. I told them it was B.S. I don't know where (the reporter) got the information. Maybe he should say where he got it from, but he didn't get it from me.

I'm disappointed in the way everybody played. You don't do good when you lose. You can't be happy about anything, can you

I think that he'll be able to do a little bit before then, and I think that we'll be able to have an idea of what he's capable of doing, to a degree. If he's out there still limping in training camp, then we're going to say, 'Hey, its not going to work. He's going to need more time.' But if he's moving around pretty well and it looks like he can catch and run and all those things, then we'll be more encouraged.

I asked Maurice what happened and he told me. That was it. I really wasn't worried that Antonio and I would have a confrontation. If he did, well, I'm the head coach.

I've thought about the possibility of not asking those guys to block at all, ... When we try to block, that's when we get the penalties. I've thought about not asking them to block and just letting Dennis making somebody miss on his own.

Well, I thought about the possibility of asking those guys to not block at all so Dennis could make someone miss on his own. When we try to block, that's when we get penalties.

I know the competition makes everybody better. So by having guys on the team competing for positions and their jobs, they give me more. And by them giving me more, we should be a better football team.

I think the system, as it currently is, probably was a slight disadvantage to Charlie and myself. Everybody assumed we were going to the Super Bowl, which they were correct, and they didn't want to wait until February to have a chance to talk to us again and maybe make a decision about a coaching job. I would have to say it was a disadvantage.

Because I think he was a little frustrated from the year before and previous years about his production. But, you got a new quarterback, new system. I think you have to take some of that into consideration.

I did wonder whether it would happen or not. Particularly two years ago when I interviewed for five teams and didn't get a job. I felt if it didn't happen this year, it probably wouldn't. But I was resolute and confident with where I was. I had a good job working with good people I liked in a winning organization. A lot of guys are looking for that. If it didn't happen, I would have just continued to do what I was doing.

I'm going to give Trent the benefit of the doubt and give him a chance to try to work out of this slump that he's in. Because he's a professional and has seen a lot of things, I think he has the ability to work his way out of it.

If we can hang into the fourth quarter, we are probably going to win our share. We'll probably lose some, too. But we won this one, and that's good for our team and it should carry us a little ways.

They're going to run the football. That's what they're going to do, run the football. If anything (playing Batch) might make them run the football more.

So far they've done a nice job, particularly in pass protection. The experience we've added to the team has paid off. Hopefully, it's not the kiss of death that we start talking about them.

I thought Jeff came in and did a reasonably good job for his team. He avoided the bad plays.

To my knowledge, no contract has been signed. Maybe they're still working that out.

I would like to think the game transcends it all, and that's the thing both Marvin and I were working toward, and hoping to get. In the NFL, the color of a coach's skin doesn't matter. We're just two football coaches playing each other on Opening Day and the guy who can get his team to play the best on that day should win the game, and I think that's what we both want from our position.

We're going to work out a couple guys and see if we can find somebody to fill that spot. That's why it's good that the game is on Sunday and not (yesterday). I think that the backup center-guard is not as valuable as the backup tackle spot. So if you can get a backup tackle that you like and that has some upside, I think you can go ahead and make that move.

Sure, so far, ... The honeymoon is still going right now. Ask me in a couple weeks, and the answer may be different.