15 Quotes by Randy Shannon

No, not really. This is about it. This is what it takes.

If they get 1, 5 or 6 yards, I'm (ticked). I always think any gain is a negative play.

He'll potentially be a great player. Some players are great the first day, and some take two or three years. Because of his circumstances, it's taken a little longer. But I wouldn't give up on him.

He's got to know the plays. He's got to know the situations. He's got to know the assignments. He's got to have the experience. There's really nothing magical. You've got to be able to get on the field and he unfortunately ... it's a shoulder, it's a hand, it's a knee, it's a stomach, it's this and that.

He was more patient. The guys stayed calm, didn't take chances. We just did our job. We didn't get caught up in trying to stop the running back, the quarterback or the receivers, we just played defense.

My wife and I went to a Kansas City dinner theater on our honeymoon and I've been doing them ever since.

You can't change what you do because you miss one player in the game. The guy's taken reps in practice all year long. They have things that he can do and he's been there, so they're going to run their scheme. They may have little wrinkles here and there that we'll have the adjust to in the first quarter, and then get the rhythm of what they're doing.

The other guys came in and they played well. Around here it doesn't matter if you're a senior or a junior or sophomore. It doesn't matter if you played well last year. You have to compete every day in practice.

Devin will still be used on offense from time to time. On defense, he's got to learn a lot of schemes, a lot of sets. On offense, he just needs to learn seven or eight plays.