As a head coach, you’re always concerned how you pace the team.
Head coach and quarterback have a record attached to them. And I have always felt a great responsibility to help lead our team to win games, the division and ultimately the Super Bowl.
Nobody, not even the head coach, would do anything to a football unilaterally, such as adjust the amount of pressure in a ball, without the quarterback not knowing. It would have to be the quarterback’s idea.
I want a hard-working head coach that will push me.
The biggest thing as a head coach, you want to make sure you exhaust every option.
We have to build that African-American offensive coordinator/quarterback coach that is going to be a head coach. I think that’s our job as head coaches – to find those guys.
When the Wales squad met up for the 2005 autumn internationals, I was already concerned that we were slipping into bad habits. And, yes, the role of head coach Mike Ruddock was, in my opinion, becoming a problem that would eventually need to be addressed if nothing changed.
You always wonder how a coach’s demeanor will be going from assistant to head coach. They can kind of change, the personality, and you don’t know how that will affect the team or how they see him.
I will miss the ladies and the passion of the Sun fans. I was proud to serve as their head coach.
If I played basketball, and you played with me, and all of a sudden you become my head coach, there isn’t anything you can tell me, dude. Because your years in the league were just as long as mine. Why are you coaching me? That’s one of the things that I hate.
My head coach in Minnesota, Dennis Green, loved wideouts with plenty of size.
I was head coach before and my main ambition is to return to that. But to work for Maurizio and Chelsea was a great opportunity.
I did some really heavy, intensive clinics with Billy Robinson. Anyone that knows anything about Billy, he was a mean old dude! I survived training with him and Josh Barnett, right in the same vein, my head coach for, like, 12 years.
It’s always good when the offensive head coach and the quarterback think like-minded. That’s a good thing.
I didn’t do it the traditional way of being an assistant first and then becoming a head coach.
I started training with Fabricio Itte with my wrestling and high performance; I started spending a lot more time with my head coach Henry Perez and also my grappling coach Alex Prates. Those three are my core team, and they’ve made hugely important changes and skill enhancements with my game.
I am happy and fortunate to join the Cincinnati Bengals as head coach.
I’m very thankful to the Krafts for giving me the opportunity to be their head coach. I’ve had some great times and been involved with some great players and great people.
These five-and-a-half seasons I was working with Ajax as the head coach, and four-and-a-half as the trainer of the academy, it cost me less energy than the eight months of Inter and Crystal Palace.
As head coach, I try to give clear role clarity, instil structure and create an environment in which players can excel.
I think I bring a good perspective because I did a lot of things in the NFL – player, head coach, assistant and scout.
Nobody, not even the head coach, would do anything to the football unilaterally, such as adjust the amount of pressure in a ball, without the quarterback not knowing. It would have to be the quarterback’s idea.
The amount of pressure that I’ve put on myself as a defensive coordinator for the last 10, 11 years, I really believe there’s a lot more decisions that go into that position than the head coach.
Well, I love being a head coach. And when my kids were younger, it just didn’t feel right at the time. I was happy where I was. I actually got away from football for a couple years until I figured out how much I missed it.
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