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
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.
decent easy
We know where we're decent and we know where we have to get a lot better. There's not an easy solution.
alternate bit blades field group guys
We've got a really outstanding group of linebackers. So, we're going to rotate those guys around a bit more. Blades will be the only one that doesn't really move, but we're going to alternate some guys. We have to try to get them all on the field as much as possible.
incorrect job might nice official putting replay skeptical stopping taking
I really like it. I was a little skeptical the way we were doing it here and putting everything on the replay official in the box. But they've done a nice job if they thought that something might be incorrect of stopping it and taking a look.
adversity deal good guys handle hit job teams
From a fundamental standpoint, particularly on defense, I didn't do a good enough job of getting the guys prepared. We hit adversity. We did not deal with adversity the way championship teams deal with adversity. We didn't handle it well.
along football further good guys job magazines newspapers preventing reading team thinking
I didn't do a good enough job of getting the guys prepared. I must not have done a good enough job of preventing our guys from reading newspapers and magazines and thinking we were a little further along or a better football team than we are today.
blitz blocked chance good guys job level matter mystery newspapers reading ready stop third win
They blocked us, there's no mystery in that. I didn't do a good enough job of getting these guys ready ? they must have been reading the newspapers too much and that's my fault. We've got to get better ? if you can't stop the run, you've got no chance to win no matter the level and we've got to get that done. We wanted to blitz them, but we could never get them to third down.
blitz blocked chance good guys job level matter mystery newspapers reading ready stop third win
They blocked us, there's no mystery in that, ... I didn't do a good enough job of getting these guys ready ? they must have been reading the newspapers too much and that's my fault. We've got to get better ? if you can't stop the run, you've got no chance to win no matter the level and we've got to get that done. We wanted to blitz them, but we could never get them to third down.
along football further good guys job newspapers preventing reading team thinking
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.
except hard
I can't do anything about that except to keep working hard and show them what I can do.
comprehend execute players time
You can only do what your players can execute ... what your players have time to comprehend and learn.
charlie comprehend defense dolphins execute miami players time
You can only do what your players can execute and have time to comprehend and learn, ... So for me to think we're going to do a lot of the things we're able to do with the Miami Dolphins defense is unrealistic. And it's the same thing Charlie is going through.
builders catch confidence nine
Greg (Lee) will make that catch nine out of 10 times, Erik Gill - that's another touchdown he fumbled out of the end zone. Those things are all confidence builders and something we'll have to correct.
guy taken
He's been unbelievable. This guy has come in here and taken over this whole thing.