Until this day, I don't really care if it's street ball or anything competitive — I hate losing. I can sit here and tell you my rookie year when I was on the kickoff team against the Raiders, I was doubled-teamed by Matt Millen and Rob Martin and I barely got across the yard line.
I could sit here and tell you when Herschel Walker trucked me over. I tackled him on the way over the top of me, but I tackled him. I could sit here and tell you I was literally knocked on my ass three times in my career where it was an even head-up shot, which I hate to this day. I could sit here and tell you I was a heck of a kickoff return blocker and we played the Detroit Lions.
I had to block this guy named Toby Caston and they told me he was pounds, but he ended up being like I was and he grabbed me by the seat of my pants and threw me out of the way, twice. I can remember that like it was yesterday. I can tell you when I played PAL or ICC football and I was running for a touchdown and I tripped myself on the three-yard line going in and fell down before the goal line.
I can tell you all of that, but I can't tell you the good times. I can tell you all my bad moments. The only great moment I remember is when I was playing street ball and it was kind of a passing of the torch as a child when you're playing in the gym against the older guys. I was hot playing basketball and I could not miss a shot. I was on fire. It had to be ninth, tenth or eleventh grade.
They were at least two or three years older. We had a young team and we could not miss a shot. Everything I threw up went in and it was just like that game after game after game. That's my best sports moment I could tell you. The Super Bowl is personal gratification, but something about passing the torch in the neighborhood means a lot. In a season-opening loss at Buffalo, the Jets yield yards on the ground and are outgained to We didn't play very smart or heady, at times.
It was a different guy each time, so you can't say there was one guy that was terrible. They get overexcited trying to make a play where they have to just do their job and not try to make plays that don't belong to them.
Guys watched the film and understand what they did wrong, especially gap fits and not jumping out of our gaps. Some guys got antsy and were peeking where they didn't belong and it hurt us. We're going back to basics and getting their eyes trained again.
They train them, but when they get up to the game, they got excited for the first game and it can't happen. The only reason you play this game is for pride. That's what I do it for.
The guys do it that way too, but sometimes you have to be streamlined and some people can't play overexcited. Some people have to play within a box.
They have to calm down and we have to calm them down, so they can play normal and treat it like practice as opposed to some people can talk and play the game. We just have to keep growing. The team will be fired up for the home opener. I think last week we realized we are a team and there were a lot of positives to come out of that game, more than the score would ever say.
It's hard to see when you're not on the inside, but I thought we grew up a little bit that game. A former safety himself, Bowles likes what he sees out of his rookie tandem in Adams, a first-round pick out of LSU, and Marcus Maye, a second-round selection from Florida. He does it the right way, he's how you build them and how you want them to play.
That's who he is. That's what you see, it's what you saw his whole college career and what you see now.
I'm just happy we got him. Marcus is an outstanding open-field tackler. Marcus makes everybody right. You don't see the flash plays, but he makes everybody right and he gets people down when no one else does. You let them play and anything you give them from an advice standpoint are small, technical things to help them see things better on the field as far as what to expect. They do this and they can come back and do that. We just make them aware of some things, but play-wise, we just let them play.
They're growing up. They're learning each other and how to eliminate mistakes for each other and that's the biggest thing. When they start seeing it themselves, you start to see progress. As a coach, you can practice it or say it all you want, but they have to catch on and start seeing it. They're starting to rely on each other now and I'm learning that about them. Hopefully it'll continue. It'll tell a lot because there's always the pressure of success and failure. Believe me, we're not successful — we won one game.
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Drawing on Northumbrian tunes, the great song collectors of the twentieth century and W. Listen here to the playlist. You can listen again on iplayer here. India Electric Co. Special concert at The Foundling Museum in London. But owner Woody Johnson opted to stay the course and give both Bowles and general manager Mike Maccagnan a third year. As for the fans who lost faith in Bowles and are unsure he should be back, the coach had a message.
We don't win ballgames, the stands aren't full. We didn't win ballgames starting out. I understand that the fans are frustrated. We're frustrated as well. Two people with direct knowledge of the situation told the AP before the game that Lynn is the clear favorite to take over the job permanently. One person called Lynn's succession to replace Ryan— fired earlier in the week by Buffalo — as being "the working plan.
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