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I was very pleased with both starting groups there, ... It's still preseason, but we needed a good lift.
Joe Gibbs
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Once you have a plan, you must sell it to the players. It is not enough to put it on the blackboard and say, 'Okay, here it is.' You have to convince the players that the plan is a good one and show them, in specific ways, why it will work. If you do, you send them out to the practice field with more confidence.
Joe Gibbs
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In talking to Mark, he gives me the impression that he thinks he can go and we'll work towards that.
Joe Gibbs
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To Mark's benefit, ... I think he's been really consistent with his play since we started back this year. I think he's been confident and sure.
Joe Gibbs
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I don't know about that, ... I've never heard that over a headset, I'll put it that way.
Joe Gibbs
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I love coaching my grandkids, but I love working with my two sons. J.D. is the head coach, and I'm the assistant - you believe that? I missed so much of them growing up. I really messed up there. So I like working with J.D. and Coy. I'm trying not to do the same thing again. With J.D. and Coy, I missed so much.
Joe Gibbs
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I'm looking for someone to establish himself as our quarterback.
Joe Gibbs
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Santana has fantastic ball reaction, ... Very few people can snatch a ball right out of the air like that. And he has great burst. He can be running and he doesn't even put his hands up because he has such confidence. He's very much a downfield threat.
Joe Gibbs
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That was the most congenial conversation I think I've ever had with anybody. What I was saying to him there was, 'I think you can help the football team' - that's when my finger came out. I said, 'Look, you can help this football team. You can rush the punter.' But I was also telling him, 'Now, this is what you need to do in order to do that.
Joe Gibbs
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He has fantastic long-ball, and ball reactions, ... Very few people can snatch a ball right out of the air like that quick. And then the other thing, he's got a great burst, and when you get him going downfield and put in the ball reaction, he can be running, I think, and doesn't even put his hands up until the last second because he has such confidence there in where the ball is. Even though he's a shorter receiver, I think he's very much a downfield threat because of that, and then, of course, he's got great speed.
Joe Gibbs
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It has been a big emphasis for us this week.
Joe Gibbs
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If we lose the game, we're not going anywhere. So my mind-set is on one thing, Philadelphia. That's the way I feel about it.
Joe Gibbs
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Brandon's super important to us and what we decided was it was probably best for the team and for him to put him on IR instead of rushing him back.
Joe Gibbs
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Just doing his part, ... He doesn't have to do more than that, you know. Direct it and get us points, but just do his part. I think one thing about Patrick is he's a real good student. I think he's smart. When you put the game plan in he has a feel for what we're doing there, so he only has to do his part. He doesn't have to make something happen by himself.
Joe Gibbs
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All of our guys thought he was on the ground. That's what everybody told me. I didn't see it, but that's what instant replay is for.
Joe Gibbs
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If I'm somebody that says the team is important and the players and coaches need to sacrifice and I then see an opportunity to help the football team and don't do it -- I would be going against the basic principal of what I preach.
Joe Gibbs
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People who enjoy what they are doing invariably do it well.
Joe Gibbs
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I feel humbled and really thankful the Lord's blessed us with a great bunch of guys. Any time you get into the playoffs, it's a huge deal. ... I don't know what to say about it, other than: I'm just thrilled. It's hard to get into the playoffs.
Joe Gibbs
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Football is a big deal at Miami. They play a tremendous schedule. If you're taking a look at somebody -- if he can play at Miami and be that kind of a guy and a leader there, then chances are he's going to be successful up here, too.
Joe Gibbs
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That is my responsibility. Obviously, we want to be more productive than we were in the playoffs.
Joe Gibbs
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I know a lot of people would disagree with this, and I understand that. For me, personally, I felt like it was a decision that I had to make. I think we've got a situation where two quarterbacks can win ball games for us. ... I know this is something that Patrick doesn't agree with - he's a very competitive guy - but it's something we're going to have to work through.
Joe Gibbs
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Somebody's going to get a real opportunity to play for us. There still may be a solid guy there (in free agency now or after the June 1 cuts) that we feel like might come up, but that's something everybody is concerned about.
Joe Gibbs
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I'd say for us, obviously we have a long way to go. We're going to have to go home. We've got a lot of work to do.
Joe Gibbs
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As a coach, you feel like you're letting everybody down.
Joe Gibbs
