206 Quotes by Dick Vermeil

All the speculation (from) television, the media throwing things out, all shook him up,

You'd like to believe we haven't lost much of what we had. But you still have to prove it. Whatever we did last year doesn't count, doesn't make a darn bit of difference. It's what you do now. With our approach and the way we run the offense in the preseason games, we make it a little tougher on ourselves.

The other thing is to keep their quarterback struggling,

The last two times they had the ball they went down the field and scored, ... I figured if we lost the toss and kicked off they may win the game, and I didn't want to give them that opportunity.

We're going to miss him. He's more than a football player for this organization.

The kind of guy Joe is and the coach he was at the time he left, I think he got like all of us do: You miss it. You miss the competitive parts of the game and the people involved in the game. I told him he wouldn't have any problems if he surrounded himself with good coaches and good people.

You'd like to believe we haven't lost much of what we had, ... But you still have to prove it. Whatever we did last year doesn't count, doesn't make a darn bit of difference. It's what you do now. With our approach and the way we run the offense in the preseason games, we make it a little tougher on ourselves.

We're realistic. But I'm not going to say we're not going to be (in the playoffs). The only thing I'm going to do is try to control the things that we have control of. If we'd controlled it better earlier, we wouldn't be in the situation we're in.

To me, there seems to be more good defensive football teams right now. I can't prove it, but it seems that way. . . . And there are more games being played on defense.