Mike Archer Quotations

I didn't want to go in there and blow up, and I would have. I could tell when I walked around the locker room after the game that they were embarrassed. I know I was embarrassed. Hopefully it never happens again.

I don't deserve patience, ... In this business you're only as good as your last game, and our last game we weren't very good. And I take that responsibility.

He helped himself, that's for sure. It was good to see a kid like Arliss, who's had so many things happen to him, show that he was healthy and had something to offer to teams.

He's a game player. The bigger the game, the better he played. Against Florida here two years ago, he played wonderful. Against Alabama down there, he was very good. When we played big-time teams, he showed up and I think he will again.

He said he was going to move out and live with his father. He said he didn't trust her anymore. She wasn't the same person that he married.

He's going to make something exciting happen. It may be for us; it may be for the other team.

Knowing what I know now, I'd still come, ... My kids were here. I wanted to be close to them.

I think you could say it was a combination of them and what we were doing, too. They didn't really test us deep, and I don't knew that they were really trying. We've still got some things we've got to get cleaned up; we're far from perfect. But I thought as a group, our defensive backs did a pretty good job.

Myron has had an excellent spring. Probably as good as anybody on our football team right now.

You just have to play with the players you have. Getting Jason Leger back will help. But we have to get freshmen Myron Pryor and Ventrell Jenkins more involved in the line play, too.

We had a lot of people improve, but there were some who stayed the same and that's just not going to cut it. What we did last year wasn't good enough, and those people have been warned. We've got guys coming in here who might take your job. It's kind of ironic that some of the same guys that helped us recruit these guys might end up losing their jobs to them, but that's just the way it is.

Today was a good day because I think the weather was very conducive to defense. It's like playing football in Pittsburgh.

We're not ready to get him (Lewis) in the Hall of Fame yet. But he has made a lot of progress and you can see him daily getting better.

There are a few of them who are going to be negative no matter what happens and say everything's impossible, ... But already we've passed so many hurdles of those kinds.

We're going to work hard to get it corrected because you have to get a rush. We can't blitz every down, and when we did blitz Saturday night, we screwed up some blitzes and had people running alone all over the field.

We're going to work hard to get it corrected because you have to get a rush,

Everything they did, we practiced against. They just whipped us up front. When we had eight guys in the box, they blocked us. When we had nine guys in the box, they blocked us.

I've been around a long time, ... and I've never seen anything like this in my life.

The off week comes at a good time.

As coaches, we've got to have more patience.

They know that the offense is going to score. But it's how you adjust and respond to that, and I thought we did a good job today.

The most disappointing thing (about the defense) is the third-down play.

Football is very important to Bo. Sitting out affected him mentally. It affected him physically.

It's going to make it a lot easier for him to cover half the field if he's going to play safety.

Everybody says, 'Well, you've gotta blitz.' Well, it doesn't make sense to blitz if you don't cover people. And we even blitzed and didn't get there.

The awnings tore off, and there may be some flooding. But our building seems to have come through it well.

It's important scientists take a stand on this because intelligent design is nothing more than creationism dressed up in a tuxedo. It's the same mishmash of theology and science.

It's hard, but you know what? ... I get to see my kids every day.

It has been tougher than what I thought it would be, ... But when we played Auburn last year, and Tommy Tuberville is a good friend of mine, he told me the hardest thing he ever did was coach Ole Miss when they were on probation.

He's really kind of an unknown commodity, because we haven't had much success. But he's going to get into somebody's camp, and I think he's got a chance to be drafted.

The guy's playing well right now. He anticipates cuts. He doesn't wait until somebody's open. He looks at the window and throws it, and not all quarterbacks do that.