I think it all circles back to me just trusting myself as a coach and believing in what I feel is the right thing to do.
That's what good teams do right there: We come together - and go boom!
The coach needs to understand, when he's not teaching something the right way or he sees something wrong, he's got to be able to admit to his mistakes.
Even as a coach, sometimes you forget the little intricacies of the offense, the details of the routes, the timing of the footwork, and the timing of the offensive tackles with the different sets that they have.
In high school, it was NEH-gee. In college, it was NAG-ee. Now we don't know what it is.
When you throw the ball 50 times, there are going to be some that are inaccurate.
You see the excitement on the players. I don't know... if they think, 'This coach is crazy,' or if they think that, 'No, this is pretty good.'
A quarterback has to trust the quarterback coach. And the quarterback coach has to trust him.
I normally don't get frizzled.
You stay positive. Any competitor is going to get angry with themselves and frustrated, and all the emotion comes on.
When you fail to communicate, there are gray areas. And when there's gray areas, then bad things happen.
That's my nature: I'm going to be aggressive, but it has to be calculated.
You can't make the kid feel like he just made three mistakes in a row and you're pumping him up. No. There's a balance to it. It's, 'Listen, here's why you did what you did. Don't do it next time, and you'll be OK.'
I was a player in the Arena League, I was building relationships with that internship.
We have to make sure as a staff, and I have to make sure as the staff learns, that we just really keep it simple. We get good at the fundamentals. And then, as we perfect that part of the game, now we can add on.
The quarterback needs to know when he's doing something wrong or how he can get better.
You can't just say, 'This team's going to win,' or 'This team's going to lose.' Anything can happen. So what you can control is winning your game as much as possible. If you don't do that, and then the other team has a chance to lose, and they lose, and you didn't go about it the right way, now you just let that slip.
If you're given a chance, and you're driven and obsessed and consumed when given the opportunity to prove people right, the sky is the limit.
You've just got to go with your gut feeling.
I went to the ultimate high to an ultimate low. It's just how life goes, and everything happens for a reason.
