Mike Tice
Mike Tice
Michael Peter Ticeis the offensive line coach for the Oakland Raiders of the National Football League. He was the head coach of the Minnesota Vikings from 2002 to 2005. He was also formerly the offensive coordinator for the Chicago Bears...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth2 February 1959
CountryUnited States of America
balance defense number players progress searching trying work
The players right now, like the coaches, are searching for an identity, ... With new players on defense, they are trying to find a balance of what we want to do and what the players do best. I think that is still, unfortunately, a work in progress and will be for a number of weeks.
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There are going to be factions in the building, ... There are guys that want Mooch to be there, and there are guys that might be happy he is gone.
base carried changed decent earlier personnel season success
We just changed (some) personnel and carried it over to base situations. So, really it was something we had been doing earlier on in the season and having some pretty decent success with. We just carried it over to the base packages.
ball best foot football moved ourselves playing shot
We moved the ball well all preseason, but we've shot ourselves in the foot too. We're not playing our best football right now, and I don't want us to play our best right now.
drafted signs speed tremendous
Troy Williamson showed some signs of why we drafted him, ... He's got tremendous speed and he's a playmaker.
certainly good heat monitor step sure top
Yes, I think it's a good thing. If what we think about the heat is true, we're very on top of it. ... Certainly we want to make sure that we monitor it every step of the way.
bait ball calling certain plan problem problems seem supposed
We had a plan where we were going to bait him into calling certain things and then move. When we did that, we had to be where we were supposed to be when the ball was snapped. And we've had a problem with that this year. But we didn't seem to have too many problems with that today.
addition blessed continue hope hurt juice sam stay
To play (middle) linebacker, you have to have the awareness. The inconsistency we had at linebacker was going to continue to hurt us. We still think Sam Cowart has got some juice in those legs. I really like the addition of Sam. I just hope we're blessed enough to have him stay healthy.
ambition
I don't have that same ambition I had when I was younger.
worry doe
I don't really ever worry about what anyone else does and I certainly don't worry about what anyone else says about me.
guess
We thought we had the ball. I guess we didn't have the ball. That was just a myth.
course four fresh gotten knee legs three
The quarterback's legs look like they are fresh and he's gotten over, for the most part, that nagging knee that has been bugging him over the course of the first three or four games,
blocked count found guy
We haven't found a guy that we can count on to get us the yardage that is blocked for the play.
game
We won't even need a preseason game, I don't think, to tell who's going to be our kicker,