"Terry Donahue" is a former American football player, coach, and executive and, currently, a football color commentator/analyst. He served as the head football coach of the UCLA Bruins football/UCLA Bruins from 1976 to 1995, compiling a record of 151–74–8. From 2001 to 2005, Donahue was the general manager for the San Francisco 49ers of the National Football League (NFL). He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 2000. Donahue is on the Board of Directors for the Lott Trophy/Lott IMPACT Trophy, which is named after Ronnie Lott and is given annually to college football's Defensive IMPACT Player of the Year.

More Terry Donahue on Wikipedia.

I've said many times I felt the linebacker corps was in the top 25 percent in the league, thought the young players we assembled were certainly capable of winning.... I think Coach Erickson had a lot of bad luck; a lot of bad things happen.

Our No. 1 priority was to keep our team intact, and we did that. I think the team feels it's good. It sees the talent level we have. You can't fool players. Players know players. I think our team feels we're going to be a good team.

Well, I'm not surprised.

As we look back at it, none of us would have anticipated that we would come back as fast as we did. One of the primary reasons you can cite for that sudden rise really was the emergence of Jeff Garcia. I mean, if he doesn't play like he plays, we might be five years in the rebuilding.

Over the last two to three years, we had played the Rams very tough on a number of occasions. And I think there's some major differences this year in terms of the health of the team.

I really didn't realize we had as many guys sick as we did.

I think we had a good young nucleus of players there. If you look at the team that beat the Rams, 10 of the guys on defense were the same guys who started last year, and nine on offense were starters last year.