206 Quotes by Dick Vermeil

Least likely normally to have a problem is the kicker.

Conversely, when you lose a football game and you fly home and look at it, it's not as bad as you thought it was. We know we aren't there yet. But we all feel we have the talent here to continue to get better.

Many times, early losses can put so much pressure on the younger quarterback that he never really gets a chance to grow. The big thing in developing a quarterback is patience. If you thought he was good enough in the first place, then ...

Early in the week (Green) had a numbness develop in his calf that went down into his toe. He could play, but after the second series, because it was bothering him, we just took him out. It comes and goes.

Oh yeah, sure. There are degrees of sprains and we've had three or four of them this year already and guys come back and play. But you don't know until you get a few days away as to how severe it is.

Every time we got something going, we had penalties. You can overcome the five-yard penalties. But personal fouls and holding penalties?

Obviously we weren't getting it done going in the direction we were going. We had to make some changes and spend some money and when we went after somebody we had to get them. We've gone after defensive players before and didn't get them. This year we got a few of them.

There's nothing like having talent. ... Our draft was good. Free agency was good. The maturity of the kids who were already here is starting to grow. And it blended together. I could just see from watching them practice ... it was going to be a much better defense. Did I anticipate shutting out the Jets? No, but I thought we would slow them down pretty good.

One was at least a pretty good call. Sometimes, hey, if you're getting beat, you don't want the quarterback hit, you take the penalty. But overall, Jordan Black did a good job for his first start at left tackle. That's a tough position.