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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For us to make some strides as a football team, that position is critical. I don't care what level you're talking about, those guys up front have to perform -- and perform at a high level. We were inexperienced last year. That's scary. Now we're a year older and that will benefit us this year.
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He came out of the game okay. He's beat up, we know that. His shoulder has been bothering him for the last couple weeks. He's fighting through it like the tough guy that he is and the competitor that he is.
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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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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 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.
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I can't do anything about that except to keep working hard and show them what I can do.
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You can only do what your players can execute ... what your players have time to comprehend and learn.
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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.
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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.
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He's been unbelievable. This guy has come in here and taken over this whole thing.
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In the NFL, we've had the four preseason games, and even high schools around here have scrimmages. ... That's the unknown or the uncertain part of this whole college experience that I'm still trying to figure out a little bit.
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I'm not ruling anything out, and my mind-set has not changed, it's the timing, ... I'm going to keep my football options open. NFL or college, I'm really not closing the door on anything.
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I preach to the players: 'You've got to eliminate distractions if you're going to win football games,'
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I told our guys when we went to Tampa, I said, 'This is going to help us down the road from the standpoint of the traveling and possible distractions.' You have to discipline your mind and be mature enough to deal with all of that during the season. And those things are going to come up during the season. Hopefully we've already crossed that bridge.