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
hard ready
You have to be ready for anything. Working hard is the one thing you can control.
change florida georgia happened offer program ready recruiting schools texas time university
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.
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.
calls coming create defensive fast ready twice upbeat
an upbeat tempo. They keep coming and coming and coming. You'd better be ready to play in a hurry. We're going to have to make defensive calls twice as fast as we've made 'em. We're going to have to get in and out of the huddle twice as fast. They create a lot of problems.
gets next office penalty time
I said the next time he gets that penalty he should go immediately to the admissions office and get his transcripts so he can transfer. We won't have that.
june liked studied
June was a quarterback, but he went to all of my meetings. He liked what we did, and he studied it.
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.
pro underdog
We were a 17-point underdog (against Houston). For pro football, that's huge.
asked bad honored rejected turned turning woody
I was honored he asked me, but I didn't feel bad about turning him down. Woody turned me down as a player. He rejected me.
asked flower last shirt wear
The only thing I asked (Jones) is if I had to wear a shirt with a flower on it, ... I didn't look at last year's defense.
changed heart
We've changed with the times, ... but the heart of what we do is still the same.
best gets players
We get to do what we do best in his stadium. That gets the players motivated.
biggest improvement second year
You make your biggest improvement your second year and I think we're going to make a leap.
everybody hit start
We could hit everybody who didn't start (on offense).