Jerry Glanville
Jerry Glanville
Jerry Michael Glanvilleis a former American football player and coach, former NASCAR driver and owner, and sportscaster. He served as Head Football Coach of the Houston Oilers from 1986 to 1990 and the Atlanta Falcons from 1990 to 1994, compiling a career NFL record of 63–73. From 2007 to 2009, he was the Head Football Coach at Portland State University, tallying a mark of 9–24. Glanville has worked as an analyst on HBO's Inside the NFL, CBS's The NFL Today/NFL...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth14 October 1941
injuries learn time waste worrying
One thing you learn in football, you waste your time worrying about injuries because they're going to come.
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Being an underdog by one point or 50, it doesn't matter. I'm glad we are an underdog. Underdogs have more that they can achieve. They have more enjoyment if they're able to climb to the mountain top.
eat home watch waves
Even if I get home at 2 or 3 in the morning, things are still jumping. I usually just get something to eat and watch the waves come in.
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I don't think you could find a rookie that has more football awareness. Mentally, he is not a rookie.
ready stop weapons
You've got to stop their weapons and they have weapons everywhere. You have to have all weapons accounted for. I think we're ready to go.
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You miss a week, you go to the back of the bus. He didn't look like how he did when he left. Everybody is ahead of him. I'm ahead of him. You can't miss a week and not be able to run and then try to be where you were. It's not going to happen. The best thing is he's very conscientious. I didn't say unconscious. But he's about one-third as good as he normally is.
athletes coached good playing total
They're just the total package. They have good athletes at all 11 positions, they're well coached and they've been playing together.
brought last watched year
I never watched them play last year. I didn't want to have any opinions, ... Last year is over. It's never been brought up.
fast
It's fast for everybody. It'll be a fast game.
showing strong
Will we get them? The percentages won't be high. But you have to let them know you want them. We're showing them we have a strong interest.
everybody hit start
We could hit everybody who didn't start (on offense).
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What's happened is all recruiting has changed. By the time you were ready to offer scholarships, the University of Texas was already done (recruiting). Georgia was done. Florida was done. All of the big schools were done. We had to change our program and our philosophy.
pro underdog
We were a 17-point underdog (against Houston). For pro football, that's huge.
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When coach Bryant called me, I really could only catch every third word. He was hard to understand, especially on the telephone, because of his accent.