Al Groh
Al Groh
Al Grohis an American football analyst and former player and coach. He served as the head football coach at Wake Forest University from 1981 to 1986 and at the University of Virginia from 2001 to 2009, compiling a career college football coaching record of 85–92. Groh was also the head coach for the New York Jets of the National Football Leaguefor one season, in 2000, tallying a mark of 9–7. He last coached as the defensive coordinator for Georgia Tech...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth13 July 1944
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Our last message at halftime was something that we had said early in training camp. We just reminded the players that battles are not won by digging in. If you dig in, you just become a target. Battles are won by attacking. The players did a very good job of that, and they can be proud of themselves.
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we started to see the player that we saw in training camp.
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Nobody has had a better training camp than Brennan.
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For the first time, we started to see the player that we saw in training camp. The absence of three or four guys that he got used to running behind last year might be a contributing factor, but I think his injury was it more than anything.
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It's kind of gone back and forth a little bit. As the wear and strain of training camp goes on, there have been real good days for him, and there have been other days when he hasn't been quite as comfortable with circumstances.
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I think that's fair to say. That has been the case from the outset, whether it's eligibility issues or training issues or whatever the case may be.
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I think it's to the quarterback's advantage to be playing with experience behind him, and then if it's to the quarterback's advantage, it is certainly going to make it to the advantage of the team to have an experienced quarterback.
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I think there's a little issue of you have to get the butterflies in your stomach when you ride in on the bus, as opposed to riding in knowing you're going to be a spectator.
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Just a tremendous punctuation point to the career he had at Virginia. He's been a tremendous figurehead for what we're trying to get out of everybody.
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Last week, we didn't really care what anybody said about us, ... We don't really care this week. We know what we have to do this week to keep it going. What we care about is winning and losing, and staying together as a team, and trying to play the kind of sound, solid, tough, aggressive football that we like to think is our trademark.
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I reminded him of what we said at halftime last week: 'We're going to ride you. Let's go.'
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Our intent from the start was really to invest heavily in this position.
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We encourage him to do that. God has blessed him with a talent that all those 6-5 quarterbacks wished they had.
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Well, we don't have (the minors). There's a lot of catching up here to do with Ahmad's game, the things that he hasn't done since Aug. 5 to improve and polish his game. So, we're solving a need as well as trying to get him some action, you know, get him a little time there.