Steve Loney
Steve Loney
Steve Loneyis an American football coach. He is currently offensive line assistant with the Dallas Cowboys. He was the offensive line coach for the Minnesota Vikings from 2003–2005, the Arizona Cardinals in 2006, and the St. Louis Rams from 2008 to 2011. Additionally, his highest coaching assignment in the NFL was as the offensive coordinator of the Vikings in 2005 under head coach Mike Tice. He held the dual role of offensive coordinator and offensive line coach at his alma...
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You try not to cut a good football player, ... so all of those guys who are on that proverbial bubble, they've got to play at a level where the coach says, 'We can't get rid of him.'
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I've done it the other way, and been successful both ways, so I'm not opposed (to any changes),
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I want to be the type of coordinator that if things go bad, I have no problems with people throwing it in my lap, ... And when things go good, I'm a big boy, I can deal with it. ... I want that to be the mark of our offense.
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This is my 32nd year of coaching, going on 64. The only way I know is just to do things the best I can. If it's not good enough, it's not good enough.
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I think you have to be careful in not trying to shove a square peg into a round hole. There might have been times when Moe made some things happen where the square peg hasn't.
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It's been an easy move because my wife already has friends down there, and my son is down there. You don't have to get a map to find your way around. So a lot of things have been good.
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It's sometimes easy to sit back, if you're not calling plays, to say, 'Man I would have done this or that,' ... But being the play-caller is the ultimate responsibility, so the responsibility falls in your lap. We can say what we want about Week 1, but the responsibility lies with me.
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Everyone, Daunte included, needs to just do their job. I don't think any one person needs to feel like they have to carry an offense on its shoulders.
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If you can explain to each person what their role is, then they can buy into it and they'll be happy within the structure of your offense. But when there's question, not sure what their role is, that's when a guy gets disappointed.
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If you try to force things against them, you're going to self-destruct. I think their defense is based in part on the premise that an offense has a hard time marching down the field for 80 yards. You're going to get impatient and force something, and that's going to create a turnover or failed third down that causes you to punt. They count on you self-destructing as much as they count on themselves succeeding.
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I think that's going to play itself out this week. You have to look at the things he's comfortable with. You can't make 10 other people change for one, but you can take those strengths and say, what do we have in the system that fits those strengths?