Larry Beightol Quotations

We're just not hitting on all cylinders yet. Does it bother me? Certainly. I'd like to rush for 200 yards every game.

If we can't run the ball, we'll be at their mercy.

But that's fine. You need to be able to adjust. We didn't.

The reason is what we just did here at the end of practice. If you take Kevin Barry and put him in at tackle, you're not moving it 65 yards downfield in a critical, critical situation.

You have to hang your hat on something. For the guys calling the plays, it's difficult. We're out here and you see things you're doing better in practice and then you get out here in a game and you say, 'Holy gosh, I thought this would be an OK play' and we end up going the other way. That's what we're trying to get a little bit better at.

We tried to simplify some things through formations and so forth and let the players play. That comes from coach Sherman. He believes in that. He believes we have to be as simple as we can and let the players get out there and play. That's what it comes down to. When it's all said and done it comes down to players on the field.

The Vikings played the entire game in the '34' other than in nickel or dime. It was well done. They caught Chicago off guard, and they should have. The score doesn't indicate it, but they did a real good job.

Teddy Cottrell is one of the original 3-4 guys in the league. He's a legitimate 3-4 guy. I don't know if that's the route he wants to go, but they played well.

It's a situation that we hoped would come a lot faster than it did and it didn't come along as fast as we thought it would come along. I think it's been new people in a new system, not being able to make the strides that they would have liked to make or I would have liked to see them make. That kind of sums it ups.

I'm sure they are, but they can't be. They've got to do their jobs. They can't be worrying about who else is in there.

I know we have a lot of work to do and I know we need to improve. I say if we've taken a drastic step backward, which we have, we can also take a drastic step forward and bring it right back up. I'm not one who looks at it as an impossible situation because I don't think that it is.

He's just a good, solid, down-to-earth guy. It was a long shot, but he must have impressed. This is an opportunity of a lifetime for him.

If everything were perfect, that would have been nice. But we're not quite there yet. There are four guys in there, they're battling tooth and nail.

You can't win the job by default. You've got to win the job with your play on the field. We're making some progress, but we're just not there yet.

This is our reasoning. We believe that if we lose the big package (U-71) we're in trouble. But Coach Sherman may come and say, 'Hey, we're going to change this.' But he has not talked to me ever about that.