The thing that's always struck me about Coach Marinelli's defenses is how fast and aggressive they play.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I learned from Chuck Noll in Pittsburgh that speed and explosiveness on defense is the way to build a team. Both are difficult for your opponent to assimilate in practice and then in games it is even harder to match.
I think that's part of building your team is trying to anticipate where your team is going and to a certain extent where, especially defensively because you have to react to what they put on the field. Defensively you have to be able to defend those things.
I'm a running coach and I am going to continue to run, but I would hope that we are better defensively.
Big plays are such a huge factor in the outcome of games. It is so difficult to go the distance on a defense.
Young quarterbacks do well because they have a great defense.
When a big play occurs for our team, I'm concentrating on how the defense is reacting to it. Most of the time, I don't see the great catch or the long run. What I'm looking at is how the other team defended it.
The Italians are very strong defensively. They showed in Euro 2000 how good defensively they are.
My mental approach is totally different. My coach predicated everything on defense. He always talked about defense, defense, defense. I took it to heart that if you play defense, you can take the heart from an offensive player.
A good football team plays offense and defense. You have to be aggressive and disrupt.
I don't say we are a defensive team. I say we are a strong team in defensive terms, but at the same time lacking sufficient fluidity in attack because that will take time to come.