25 Quotes by Steve Loney

I've always been of a mind-set to play the five best offensive linemen. I think your players need to feel that from you as well. If you're sitting behind Leonard Davis, you can't feel like it's a hopeless situation.

It's been an easy move because my wife already has friends down there, and my son is down there. You don't have to get a map to find your way around. So a lot of things have been good.

It's tough to throw somebody into the deep end and tell them to start swimming. I prefer to start out in the shallow end. Now, some kids pick it up pretty quick.

You try not to cut a good football player, ... so all of those guys who are on that proverbial bubble, they've got to play at a level where the coach says, 'We can't get rid of him.'

It's sometimes easy to sit back, if you're not calling plays, to say, 'Man I would have done this or that,' ... But being the play-caller is the ultimate responsibility, so the responsibility falls in your lap. We can say what we want about Week 1, but the responsibility lies with me.

Everyone, Daunte included, needs to just do their job. I don't think any one person needs to feel like they have to carry an offense on its shoulders.

I've done it the other way, and been successful both ways, so I'm not opposed (to any changes),

I want to be the type of coordinator that if things go bad, I have no problems with people throwing it in my lap, ... And when things go good, I'm a big boy, I can deal with it. ... I want that to be the mark of our offense.

I know the target on my back is bigger. If we don't play well, Judgment Day will come.