Dick Vermeil
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"Richard Albert "Dick" Vermeil" is a retired United States/American head coach for the National Football League's Philadelphia Eagles (1976–1982), St. Louis Rams (1997–1999) and Kansas City Chiefs (2001–2005). He is in the Sid Gillman coaching tree and has coached at every level; Vermeil owns the distinction of being named “Coach of the Year” on four levels: High School, Junior College, National Collegiate Athletic Association/NCAA Division I and National Football League/Professional Football.

In all three of his stops as an NFL head coach, Vermeil has taken every team—Philadelphia Eagles/Philadelphia, St. Louis Rams/St. Louis and Kansas City Chiefs/Kansas City, each of which had a losing record before he arrived—and brought them to the playoffs by his third season at the helm.

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Many times, early losses can put so much pressure on the younger quarterback that he never really gets a chance to grow. The big thing in developing a quarterback is patience. If you thought he was good enough in the first place, then ...

Sometimes that embarrasses the player.

(There are quarterbacks) you win because of, ones you win along with and ones you win in spite of. If you've got one you have to win in spite of, he's usually not the quarterback very long.

All they told us, ... is there's 2,000 people decorating the dance floor.

Quite a few of them were holding.

I think we can play better than that. I think we can play harder than that. I don't know if Champ Bailey said that to evaluate.

We just did not play well ... just multiple things, multiple wounds. Best thing about the game is that I don't think we got anybody injured. We got some feelings hurt, but I don't thing anybody got injured.

If you don't invest very much, then defeat doesn't hurt very much and winning is not very exciting.

You can see why they're in the Super Bowl. We could play with them for a long time but not long enough to beat them.