Dan Reeves Quotations

Never is a bad word, to say you'll never be a head coach again. But am I actively looking? No. Did Bob call me and ask me if I was interested in being the head coach? No. He called and asked if I was interested in helping him by being a consultant.

Nobody wanted Peerless Price more than Arthur Blank,

because of what happened to us last year.

He's had a lot of progress the last three or four days.

When he came out of the tunnel in the pregame warm-ups, the response was unbelievable. I had been in the National Football League for 18 years at that time, and I had never seen anybody get booed that loudly in pregame warm-ups. It just didn't stop. It was the worst thing I had ever seen, the dangdest thing I've ever seen.

He was so much more confident then. That's when we knew we had something special.

He wants to be called Mike, I'm really pleased with Mike.

Keith Brooking of course is the worst injury. He does have some chipped vertebrates in his back. How long that will be I don't know, a lot of it depends on when the soreness goes away,

When you're that successful running the football, you don't change what you did. I would say that's probably the way we will go.

You have to make some tough decisions. We've been struggling for five weeks, and I just feel like we need to make a change. I told Doug I feel badly. Everybody on offense should, because he's the one who gets the blame for it.

I've never seen anything like it. I had no idea it could be that bad. I wasn't sure why he didn't want to play in Baltimore, but the people took it personally. I've never seen a player get booed non-stop in pregame warmups. It was brutal.

It was tough because they were booing when we were in the huddle and guys had difficulty hearing. And, to add to that, John had to get the plays off without taking penalties. Like I said, I didn't prepare him because I had no idea it would be like that.

It was unbelievable. I've never seen anything like it. It was brutal. It was the toughest situation anyone has ever been in.

So that's as much the owner as it is anybody. Probably won't come out that way, but anybody that knows what went on knows that was Arthur Blank's idea.

Back then, you didn't have the quarterback-coach communication (through the speaker system in the helmet),

Everybody has high expectations for a first pick. Everybody thinks that the guy is going to walk out there and be a superstar, and it just doesn't work that way. But a lot more do end up playing for a long time and getting the job done than those who fail.

He wouldn't talk to anyone, including me. It was terrible. So I quit.

If I had it to do over again,

I do think Kurt deserves the right to see what he can do. Our room for error is not very good. We can't afford to have the interceptions and those kinds of things.

He's not really had a chance. I know he has the ability, or I wouldn't put him in there. I'm not throwing him to the wolves. I want to give him a chance and see how he does.

The crowd immediately quieted down. We had a chance to execute.