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
work
We've all got a lot of work to do,
people trying
We are just shuffling some people and trying to get the most out of them.
game player ricky team took win
We're going to do what we have to do to try and win the game, ... Ricky wanted to go in at the end of (Sunday's) game to get 100 yards. I took him out. He's a competitor. ... There's not a player on our team who says, 'You try and win it, I'll watch.' That doesn't compute.
ball chance field guys help push reason step
We're going to give those two guys a chance to see if they can help push the ball down the field a little bit. We have to have other guys step up and that's the reason for the change.
confident line run
We're confident we can run the ball. We're going to line up and run the ball, ... We're not going to back away from anything.
running ways
We've got a ways to go running the ball.
bears chicago dolphins england miami pitt versus
We thought we'd see some New England Patriots in their offense, ... but it was still Pitt versus Notre Dame, not the Miami Dolphins or the Chicago Bears versus the New England Patriots.
coaches either good last means sustain turned
What you did last week, good or bad, means nothing ... You're either a 10 or a one. There's no in-between. The coaches that can sustain and find a way to get things turned around are the ones (that are successful).
either fall maybe plays time trap wasting work
There are some things that one does maybe a little better than the other, but we would not fall into that trap of wasting time working on plays that either one couldn't work or run.
opening personnel sort year
With us, everything is sort of new, from a personnel standpoint. Simonitis is really the only one that was in the lineup on Opening Day a year ago.
continue freshman played
We played a lot of freshman and we're going to continue to do that.
best block happened heavy needs powers run
When we run our tosses and our powers and our heavy run game, he's got to block somebody. He needs it. In the long run, it'll be the best thing that's happened to him.
critical literally room
We have no room literally to spare. Every game, every day is critical to us.
excitement grown seems
The excitement has grown and grown for it seems like forever,