American - Coach | August 17, 1963 -
A lot of people forget how extraordinary Elway was handing the ball off to Terrell Davis, and those bootlegs, those naked bootlegs off of those stretch plays was devastating.
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I think when you get Robert Griffin, one of the most explosive quarterbacks to ever play the position, in a Mike Shanahan-type system, the possibilities are very exciting, I think, with Mike Shanahan's imagination.
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Eli Manning is the one man I just don't want to see in the playoffs. He is a flatliner.
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Some guys, nothing bothers them. Eli Manning is one of those players.
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You think of Brady, you think of Rodgers, Roethliseber, Eli Manning. They're icemen. They have no feelings - none. They're able to concentrate on a snap-by-snap basis.
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When we had a great defense at Tampa Bay, we always measured our defenses against the best quarterbacks.
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Cancer is tough. It is a relentless opponent that won't seem to go away.
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In football, we tried each week to come up with the best game plan for every opponent. Some were tougher than others.
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God bless Tony Romo.
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The Gruden-McVay relationship goes all the way back to 1970. John McVay and my dad are best of friends. My dad continued to work with McVay as a 49er. When John McVay became the general manager, he hired my dad to be one of his scouts.
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I took a lot of pride, honestly, in hiring these young guys, that not only to become future head coaches, but I wanted young guys that could help me - guys that can coach, guys that could study, guys that loved it, that would do it for nothing. That's how I got into coaching with the 49ers when John McVay hired me.
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I learned from Al Davis. We didn't have any secretaries. Secretaries, really, in Oakland were young football people.
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