Dave Wannstedt
Dave Wannstedt
Dave Wannstedtis an American football coach. He has been the head coach of the Chicago Bears and Miami Dolphins of the National Football League. He was also the head coach of the University of Pittsburgh football team from 2005 to 2010. He also was a long-time assistant to Jimmy Johnson with the Dallas Cowboys, Miami Hurricanes, and Oklahoma State Cowboys as well as an associate of Johnson when both were assistants at the University of Pittsburgh in the 1970s...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth21 May 1952
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If you turn the football over, you turn them over for touchdowns or turn them over in the red zone, you're not going to beat anyone, ... Tyler is our leader. He's one of the best players we have on this team. He's won an awful lot of games around here and he'll continue to win an awful lot of games.
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he said. I've tried all that, and none of it works.
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No question, this is our big game. Our rival game. I know how our fans react and their fans react. That's what college football all about.
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I must not have done a good enough job myself preventing our guys from reading the newspapers and magazines. We were thinking we were a little further along or a better football team than we showed.
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I've always believed this: The game comes down to the players executing,
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It was really in my mind a turning point, ... We needed to beat a good opponent. We were more confident than we had been in the past.
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There was no way I was going to have my first practice in pads and walk into that locker room without having anybody with mud on their pants,
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There was just one of them that he actually made a throw, to Joe DelSardo, where he actually did scramble and hit it,
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I've been involved in springs where, the last week, you're going backward -- you go out for the spring game and the quarterback throws three interceptions, the running backs fumble and the offense doesn't score a touchdown. Then you start making excuses. But we played well enough today and did enough good things.
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In a game like this, everything gets magnified and you can't afford to make any mistakes.
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He's our guy. He's won a lot of games around here and will continue to win a lot of games. We need to threaten people. That wasn't happening.
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I told them the first four off the bus are the starters. I was kidding them but halfway serious. It's all up for grabs in a healthy way.
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He made more plays in one week at linebacker than he made the entire season at safety last year. I just think he's comfortable there. He doesn't have to think as much, and he can get to the football.
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I was just sick and tired of hearing that John Denver song for five days leading up to it,