Dennis Erickson Good Quotations

Tim is very smart. He understands the game and has a good arm. He does a lot of the things I like to do offensively. How good is he going to be? I don't know. We'll have to coach him up and find out.

Al is a great technician of secondary play. He is as good as there is at coaching cornerbacks. He was with me for two years at Oregon State and then at the San Francisco 49ers. He understands what it takes to be successful in the secondary. On top of that, he is a great recruiter.

I thought we did some pretty good things ... execution-wise. The offense is new, but they executed pretty well. Defensively we did some good things, but we've got a long way to go.

It's been a good spring. It's been a learning process, obviously, with some of the new things that we put in.

I haven't seen them on the field. When you look at it on tape, when you win two football games, you haven't done a lot of good things, to be honest.

Obviously the focal point on any football team is the quarterback, there is no question about that. And I feel very, very good about Steve.

It's a combination of young guys and some veterans. I spent a lot of time interviewing and talking to the staff here. I really felt they did a good job. I wanted to keep as many as I could.

In four years, I thought we got them into a pretty good situation. In the fifth year, obviously, they took away our chance.

I think there's a good chance. This interests me.