Pete Kendall Quotes

You don't want to see them get hurt. Whether it's your guy or not is immaterial. - Pete Kendall

You don't get better losing players like that... I'm not bold enough to say that I'm going to come in here and my first game back be the center that Kevin was. - Pete Kendall

Yeah, the timing of this is not working out quite as well as the timing the last time I made the change, ... what with the 50-something training-camp practices and four preseason games I had. And the media focus wasn't quite as intense either. - Pete Kendall

Would (a win) have been nice? Yeah, but I don't think anybody expected commissioner (Paul) Tagliabue to call the season in the middle of October. - Pete Kendall

We never were asked and certainly aren't being asked to carry this team and win games 35-31. We have a young guy in there at quarterback who is going to get his feet wet. There are going to be some growing pains, but I think this environment is a good place for a guy like that to learn because he does have 52 other guys who can play. - Pete Kendall

We all know Curtis is a tough guy. He's going to play if he can play. It wasn't like our jobs could have gotten much harder anyway with these defences coming up. It's going to be a tough mountain to climb regardless. - Pete Kendall

Very deflating. That's an understatement. - Pete Kendall

Typically, the first thing the center has to do is, as we call it, set the defense... Really, you're identifying the middle linebacker ... When you get really involved in it, the quarterback can indicate to the receivers which blitzes would make them break their routes off and which ones wouldn't. A lot of that depends on how I've set the front. - Pete Kendall

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