Herman Edwards
Herman Edwards
Herman "Herm" Edwards, Jr.is an American football analyst who most recently coached in the National Football League for the Kansas City Chiefs. Since 2009, he has been a pro football analyst for ESPN. He played cornerback for 10 seasonswith the Philadelphia Eagles, Los Angeles Rams and Atlanta Falcons. Prior to his coaching career, Edwards was known best as the player who recovered a fumble by Giants quarterback Joe Pisarcik on a play dubbed "The Miracle at the Meadowlands."...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth27 April 1954
CityFort Monmouth, NJ
You can score a lot of points and throw it, but if you can't run, you're not winning.
The games are so close now a couple of fouls at the wrong time ... it'll get you,
The first thing is you check out the guys you have on your team. You check out the character of your team,
The first week, he practiced five days in a row, then we gave him a day off. This week was a little different ? one-a-days, now this. He knew it was coming. He knew it was going to be different. We're progressing him, watching him to see where he's at.
The guy is a heck of a football player,
A lot of young guys will have to play by the end of the season, ... I think that, for the most part, guys understand that changes are taking place.
All of a sudden, our punter and kicker now are going to be in a real game, a big-time football game, ... How are they going to react to that?
It could be more ugly football for us.
It didn't look good. We are keeping our eyes open with all these guys, but he did have a good workout.
I thought Brooks did a great job of performing,
I thought Brooks did a good job, for the most part. When he throws the ball our receivers have to catch it. We have to do a lot of things better on offense if we're going to give ourselves a chance.
I think you can see that he's getting the feel for it again. It takes a long time, even for a veteran guy like that. People don't realize that he changed systems, and that's very difficult without a training camp.
It is harder for me because we know all the work he has put into it,
Football teams are families, ... I had a sister who used to beat me up all the time, but she was still my sister.