41 Quotes by Larry Coyer

My pitch wasn't too bad. He wanted to come to UCLA, but we made the mistake of taking another guy and he went to Washington and I think beat them three out of four.

The answer makes me sick. But here it is, and it's just like it's supposed to be: You've got the best football teams (in the playoffs), and if you want to make it through, you've got to be the best one.

We put him in a bad deal. We were humiliated. They kicked every man's butt out there ? coaches, players, everybody. He's taken a lot of heat. For him to take the brunt of that wouldn't be fair.

We're certainly bigger, faster than we've been. Our guys are okay. They can play at a high level; they just have to know that. We're not without talent, let's put it that way.

We have to research a lot of things to see what particular scheme (they will run).

We're very well aware that he was off the field too much in those situations. One thing that we have to be conscious of as we go is that doesn't happen again. We've got to rotate in our nickel situations.

We'll put a guy in there who's a veteran player, and he's got some emotion too, now, on Tick (Burns). Everybody forgets that. Old Tick will do fine. He can get after it, now.

We've worked hard and, hopefully, we have some sort of feel and we're ready to go. But that's one of the great things about playing against our offense, is they prepare us for just about anything. Truly they have. So I think that's in our corner.

There are preconceived notions and ideas. But they may change if a guy goes out there and plays. There's a ton of examples that have changed on game day. I'm sure the people who are with us making those decisions have pretty good thoughts, but I do think this is an important game. Who can play and who can't?