Dick LeBeau
Dick LeBeau
Charles Richard LeBeauis an American football coach and former cornerback, who is the assistant head coach and defensive coordinator for the Tennessee Titans of the National Football League. He has been active at field level in the NFL for 57 consecutive seasons–14 as a player with the Detroit Lions and 43 as a coach. He was most recently the Pittsburgh Steelers' defensive coordinator and is considered to be one of the greatest defensive coordinators of all time. Considered an “innovator”...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth9 September 1937
CityLondon, OH
He's a rare threat. We've had Carnell Lake and Rod Woodson do similar things, but players like that don't come down the road too often. Troy is special.
Our coaches were good to us. They treated it more as a bonus for us. We didn't work too hard and we got some time off.
In his unique way, I think he creates not any better than those guys but in a different manner.
He's very quick, and he can make plays with his feet and his arm. He is also very accurate, and his ability to escape adds to his overall package.
He's not like any other safety I have ever seen.
He runs real, real fast. And he's very instinctive. He just can diagnose and get to the right spot.
Make no mistake, they've got a great quarterback. It's not easy to hold him under 20. Our guys did that and it gives you a great chance to win. It was the execution of our players. They did a great job with their timing.
The statistics will tell you that: They scored more points. That's usually a pretty good barometer for the effect that the rule changes had on the game for that year. The numbers, in this case, don't lie.
He looked like he was 100 percent to me. They said he's 90 percent. If he's got more than that, he's pretty good.
As a defense, we didn't play very well in (the AFC Championship game) and that's going to be in the front of our minds, for sure.
It's a nice even number, isn't it? When I reached 30 years, I didn't think about 50. But we're a little closer to 50 now. So we'll see. I'll take it one snap at a time.
All quarterbacks have to have time and space to operate. We'll do the same thing we always do: play zone pressure. And our guys play it very well.
Our guys did a great job with their disguising and their timing.
Troy's got that rare ability to play at all levels of the defense - deep, intermediate, at the line and blitz. Those people just don't come along every day.