Herm Edwards

With analytics being a real part of this now, all of a sudden that kind of blurs things, right?

All the fans have the analytic information and you have analytics as a coach.

I just believe in the old-fashioned way.

When I was a coach and had the great responsibility of being a head coach and a decision maker, the one thing I've always learned is I should listen to my eyes.

And I don't worry about analytics.

I listen to my eyes.

I look at the field and say, this is what's happening.

Here's the situation.

And this is what I'm about to do.

And so that's all you can do.

And sometimes you're right, sometimes you're wrong.

And when you're wrong and you lose, that's the big talking point, right?

Especially the day after the game.

Well, the momentum of the game tells me at that point I'm going to rely, and I learned this being a coach, when you get in that situation, fourth and one, the first thing I'm doing is I'm going to go for it, but I'm going to run the ball.

I'm going to put it on the big fellas.

You know, it's almost one of those deals when you get in situations like that, and I'm not saying whatever he decided was wrong, but I do know this.

The big guys that really determine the game, offensively and defensively, the guys that put their hands in the dirt,

When you're a coach and a fourth and one and you throw a pass, you got to deal with those big guys when it don't work now.

Coach, you mean to tell me that you don't think we can knock these guys off the ball for a yard?

I learned that as a head coach with the Jets.