Tom Higgins
Tom Higgins
Thomas Joseph John Higgins, Jr.is a former head coach in the Canadian Football League. Higgins previously served as the Director of Officiating for the Canadian Football League and a former Canadian and American football player coach and General Manager...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth13 July 1954
bring defence easy fond football humbling leave memories operate performance stadium stellar team teams tough win
The defence had another stellar performance. It was tough sledding out there just to operate the way we do normally. There's a lot of fond memories that come back from the crowd, which I thought was in this football game. It's not an easy place to ever win when you bring a team in to this place. It's humbling to come into this stadium and be on the other side. A lot of teams leave this locker-room dejected because they can't win here.
football learning win
We're still learning how to win football games,
advantage football game home huge mind players playoff sure thinking trying win
There's such a huge advantage to having a home playoff game that I'll make sure that the players aren't thinking anything in the back of their mind other than trying to win a football game,
lick people win won
Before we left, people said if we won one out of two, that would be great. Shoot, we wanted to win two out of two. We won one and now we have to lick our wounds.
proven tough win
It's tough to win with young quarterbacks. It's proven in the CFL,
both career followed game leaves major proud true winner
I'm very proud of Scott's career and what he has accomplished. Having followed him from the beginning, he has been a major contributor both on and off the field. He leaves the game a winner and a true professional.
couple facing
I think we have a couple of headwinds facing the market.
cycle early hike next pause point quarter
I think there will be another quarter point hike or two. This is paving a way for a pause at some point early next year. This tightening cycle is long in the tooth.
couple fans given jon opportunity
Our fans will have to be patient. Should Jon be given an opportunity down south, then we could be a couple of years away.
count operate silent
We'd better be able to operate on the silent count or we won't be able to operate at all.
game
We can be champions, but we have to take it one game at a time.
execute happen higher level
We'd like for him to have come on out and execute at a much higher level and it just didn't happen this evening.
hopefully walk
We'll know more (today). Hopefully it's just a sprain that he can walk off.
felt opportunity performed surprised
We've always felt that way. I'm not surprised that when he had the opportunity to go in that he performed as well as he did.