Randy Edsall
Randy Edsall
Randy Douglas Edsallis an American football coach who is currently the director of football research-special projects for the Detroit Lions of the National Football League. He was the head coach at the University of Maryland from 2011 to 2015. Edsall was previously the head coach at the University of Connecticut from 1999 until the 2011 Fiesta Bowl, and oversaw the program's promotion from the NCAA Division I-AA level to Division I-A. He has the most wins for a head football...
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We're a team. We're not a bunch of individuals. What everybody has to do is just pick their game up a little bit. It doesn't matter who is in there. We have confidence in them or we wouldn't put them in.
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There is a tremendous challenge for this football team this week as we head down to Atlanta. We know that they are an outstanding football team. They are well coached. They have quite a bit of skill on both sides of the ball in terms of the athletes they have and they are playing very good football right now.
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I expect Dennis, being relaxed, to go out and play the game. It's interesting, the one thing about him, the fact that he's coming from Miami is that he's played in front of 10 to 15,000 people before. I know it's not 40,000, but from what I have seen out of him he's a poised young man and a confident young man.
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I expect Dennis, being relaxed, to go out and play the game,
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He's here, he's paying his own way for classes, and he's taking part in football activities. He's a walk-on who'll be fighting for a chance to play, just like everybody else.
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He's healthy now. He's been punting the ball much better than he had been. He's got a little more confidence.
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He's healthy now, ... He's been punting the ball much better than he had been. He's got a little more confidence.
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He's got to learn a game plan. He doesn't need any other distractions other than getting himself prepared, ... The more he can do that the better he'll feel going into the game rather than have to answer a lot of questions at this point in time.
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He's going to work real hard to try and get himself back for this season. It's unfortunate because he's a young man who was making some progress this spring.
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He gutted it out, but there are a lot of things he has to work on. He has to learn not to hold the ball so long in certain situations.
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He moves very well for a man his size. I don't worry about 40-times. If he's ever doing a 40-yard sprint on game day, something's wrong.
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When I address those 105 guys, they're going to look at me and my attitude in terms of how I'm approaching this, ... If I'm not upbeat, I'm not positive and I don't have the good body language, then I'm sending a message to the team of 'woe is me.'
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We feel Jonathon has speed and athletic ability coming off the edge if we play him as a defensive end. In college football you don't need to have all those big people up front rushing all the time. Plus, with his athleticism, it helps us with some of the other things we do with our nickel package.
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Because of the number of people we lost - we had to spend time doing some different things in terms of developing leadership and getting guys to understand what it's going to take to play at the level that we want to play at, ... A lot of the guys haven't had the opportunity to play at that level.