Steve Loney Quotations

Naturally Adam has a lot to learn, but he did well for a person who had never played the position.

I don't think it's an issue, and I don't lack any confidence in doing so,

He's a guy that obviously has some abilities, and he'll be a guy we'll continue to work in the offense. I think he's getting more and more comfortable with it.

I think that's going to play itself out this week. You have to look at the things he's comfortable with. You can't make 10 other people change for one, but you can take those strengths and say, what do we have in the system that fits those strengths?

I think you have to be careful in not trying to shove a square peg into a round hole. There might have been times when Moe made some things happen where the square peg hasn't.

We had some inside pressure on Pep, ... and then at times when the protection got good, his time clock had already sped up. As a quarterback, it's not easy to use the time clock that's available on that single play. It goes with the flow of the game. I think that compounded the problems.

This system has been in place for quite some time and so we'll work within that system and tweak it. In certain situations I've got to make sure there is a semblance of balance. You've got to have some things in there that keep the defense honest.

When you only have one touchdown in two games, you obviously have some things to fix.

When the dust clears down the road, I know that Mike will have some other opportunities come his way.

I've always been of a mind-set to play the five best offensive linemen. I think your players need to feel that from you as well. If you're sitting behind Leonard Davis, you can't feel like it's a hopeless situation.

I've done it the other way, and been successful both ways, so I'm not opposed (to any changes),

I know the target on my back is bigger. If we don't play well, Judgment Day will come.

If you can explain to each person what their role is, then they can buy into it and they'll be happy within the structure of your offense. But when there's question, not sure what their role is, that's when a guy gets disappointed.

If you try to force things against them, you're going to self-destruct. I think their defense is based in part on the premise that an offense has a hard time marching down the field for 80 yards. You're going to get impatient and force something, and that's going to create a turnover or failed third down that causes you to punt. They count on you self-destructing as much as they count on themselves succeeding.

Everyone, Daunte included, needs to just do their job. I don't think any one person needs to feel like they have to carry an offense on its shoulders.

You try not to cut a good football player, ... so all of those guys who are on that proverbial bubble, they've got to play at a level where the coach says, 'We can't get rid of him.'

It's tough to throw somebody into the deep end and tell them to start swimming. I prefer to start out in the shallow end. Now, some kids pick it up pretty quick.

I want to be the type of coordinator that if things go bad, I have no problems with people throwing it in my lap, ... And when things go good, I'm a big boy, I can deal with it. ... I want that to be the mark of our offense.

I know only one way to prepare and that's to prepare to win with the guys just like this was everything on the line. I think if you treat it any differently it sends the wrong message. ... It might be exciting to young players but it also can send the wrong message to others and I don't know what kind of atmosphere that creates. So, I think we're not going to prepare any differently.

I really just call plays with my gut, ... And you certainly want to stay away from tendencies. There were very few hiccups in this (victory).

If you take Peyton Manning out of the mix, I think somebody could have built a pretty strong case about him being an MVP.

This is my 32nd year of coaching, going on 64. The only way I know is just to do things the best I can. If it's not good enough, it's not good enough.

It's sometimes easy to sit back, if you're not calling plays, to say, 'Man I would have done this or that,' ... But being the play-caller is the ultimate responsibility, so the responsibility falls in your lap. We can say what we want about Week 1, but the responsibility lies with me.

It's been an easy move because my wife already has friends down there, and my son is down there. You don't have to get a map to find your way around. So a lot of things have been good.

I'd really be feeling bad if I was sitting here trying to figure out how I was going to feed my family on Feb.1.