POSTED: Monday October 12th 2009
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I advised Michael Vick not to go there - Dungy on the Raiders

“FOOTBALL NIGHT IN AMERICA” NOTES AND QUOTES; WEEK 5

 

       “Obviously I haven’t hurt him too much, he’s started off with four 300-yard games.” - Dungy’s Response to Peyton Manning





       “He’s as close to a player/coach as we’ve seen in the NFL since Johnny Unitas.” – Collinsworth on Manning



NEW YORK – October 11, 2009 – Following are highlights from NBC Sports’
“Football Night in America.” Bob Costas hosted the show live from LP
Field in Nashville. He was joined on site for commentary by Al Michaels
and Cris Collinsworth. Co-hosts Dan Patrick and Keith Olbermann,
analysts Tony Dungy and Rodney Harrison, and reporter Peter King were
live from NBC’s 30 Rockefeller Plaza studios, covering the news of the
NFL’s fifth week.



Highlights from “Football Night” follow:



COSTAS INTERVIEWS

“Football Night” host Bob Costas interview with Colts QB Peyton Manning aired in “Football Night.”



MANNING ON HIS FORMER COACH, TONY DUNGY, AS AN ANALYST:

“I’ve sent him a couple texts, and I guess there’s nothing in writing
that says he can’t reveal everything.  But I’m very protective of the
offense.  Tony knows our stuff more than anybody.  And so I texted him,
to say, hey, go easy on the—especially with Rodney sitting right by
him.  I’m sure Rodney’s got coach B (Belichick) on speed dial.  You
know, I worry about that whole scenario.  I worry about what he’s
saying off camera.

So, hopefully, he’ll tone it down a little bit.  He has got a little bit revealing at times.



“He does a good job.  He’s a natural for that job.  I’m still not
comfortable seeing him there as opposed to on the sidelines and we
still miss him but he’s still around.  He’s still in our building.  His
presence is felt.”



DUNGY’S RESPONSE: “There are a couple of things that I could say about
this offense that I would never say.  I haven’t given away anything and
obviously I haven’t hurt him too much, he’s started off with four
300-yard games.  He’s never done that before so I haven’t given away
too much information.”



COLLINSWORTH ON MANNING: “He’s as close to a player/coach as we’ve seen in the NFL since Johnny Unitas.”



TONY DUNGY’S COACH’S CLICKER

Dungy provided analysis on how to stop Peyton Manning showing examples
of how the Bears and Chargers showed different looks at the line of
scrimmage in attempts to confuse Manning.



Dungy: “If I’m Jeff Fisher, I say we’ve got to find ways to create
pressure. We can’t let him throw with his feet set. He’ll carve us up.
We’ve got to create pressure but we’ve also got to do some things that
he hasn’t seen before. That he hasn’t prepared for.”



COSTAS ASKS, “HOW GOOD ARE THE GIANTS AND HOW BAD ARE THE RAIDERS?”:

MICHAELS: “Very and Very.  If I am a team in the National Football
League I can’t wait to see the Oakland Raiders on my schedule.”



ON THE RAIDERS:

HARRISON: “It’s like watching a bad high school football team.  It’s
easy to blame JaMarcus Russell but it’s not all on him.  You look at
missed tackling on defense.  On offense they can’t run they can’t block
and they can’t throw.  It’s a whole host of problems.



DUNGY: “It starts with the organization and Al Davis needs to cede this
over to someone else.  Every coach that has been there has felt that
they have been hamstrung a little bit (by ownership).”



PATRICK: “Is that why they won’t get a marquee coach there?”

DUNGY: “I don’t think they will unless you can get total autonomy and I don’t think that’s going to happen.”



HARRISON: “As a free agent I visited Oakland and thank god I didn’t sign there.”



DUNGY: “I advised Michael Vick not to go there.  I said, ‘Mike, you
might be able to start there but that is not a good place for you.’”



OLBERMANN ON TOM CABLE POSSIBLE SUSPENSION: “If the commissioner wants
to punish him, shouldn’t he just make him coach the Raiders?”



ON REDSKINS AND JIM ZORN:

COLLINSWORTH: “The fans in that part of the country are very
knowledgeable about football.  They know for Jim Zorn that it is almost
over.”



KING ON SHANAHAN AND RUMORS: “Mike Shanahan will not coach during this
season.  I do believe he will be a coach somewhere in January because
he doesn’t want to inherit someone else’s coaching staff; he’s going to
come in and sweep clean.  In Washington, particularly, he won’t go
there unless there is total autonomy for him.”



KING ON MARVIN LEWIS: “He told me after the game, ‘we’re just trying to
get on your air.’  He just wants to be on a “Sunday Night Football”
game in Weeks 11-16  [Flex Games] this year.”



ON COWBOYS:

HARRISON: “I don’t like their chances.  I think they think they are
better than they are.  They’re too inconsistent and not a well coached
team.  I don’t believe in this team.”



DUNGY: “Right now they are not a playoff-type team.  You can beat the
Kansas City’s of the world like this but to win the NFC East they are
going to have to play much better.”



HARRISON: “I like Tony Romo.  Romo has room to grow.  I like him as a quarterback and I think he is going to get better.”



MICHAELS: “A very important and dramatic win for those guys.  Romo
needed a game like that.  Wade Phillips needed a game like that.”



ON THE BENGALS:

PATRICK: “How surprised are you that the Bengals are 4-1?”

DUNGY: “Not as surprised as Pittsburgh and Baltimore.”



ON BRONCOS:

OLBERMANN ON THEIR THROWBACK UNIFORMS: “The 1972 San Diego Padres.”



HARRISON: At the beginning of the season when the Broncos were having
some success we started second-guessing their competition level.  They
really didn’t play anybody until they played the Patriots today and
they went out and proved it in all three segments – offense, defense
and special teams and they are something to be dealt with.”



PATRICK TO DUNGY: “You said earlier in the week that you were renting the Denver Broncos. You buying?”



DUNGY: “I am buying now. I wanted to see them against a great quarterback and a great offense. And they shut them down.”




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