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By: Ryan Glasspiegel and Jason Lisk19 hours ago
RG: Prior to this season you’d been working in football pretty much non-stop since 1969, and in the NFL since 1976. There was just one year off in-between. How much football are you watching this season?
WP: Pretty much every chance I get. Of course I’m probably watching more college football, too. I watch all the games. My wife goes crazy when I watch all eight of them at once. She has to go in the other room.
RG: So you’re watching the DirecTV Game Mix channel? Or, do you watch Red Zone?
WP: I’ll do both. I also go on the other channels and watch the games themselves. And I record some of the games, and go back in case I want to see the Texans, Cowboys, or Commanders — teams I’m interested in — I’ll record their games and look at them again.
RG: How often do you see announcers say something that you think is incorrect?
WP: Most of the time. Quite a bit, really. They don’t know a whole lot about it. They really don’t know zones from man-to-man. I’m talking about defenses. Some of the offensive stuff is pretty clear, but even then I’ll see a lot of mistakes as far as what they’re seeing, what’s happening, who’s fault it is — all those things.
JL: We saw you tweet a couple weeks ago from the upper deck of Jerryworld when you were watching your son coach for Washington. How did you get such plush seats?
WP: The visiting team always gets those. We were sitting way out there in Houston when Washington played the Texans as well. That’s just the seats you get.
JL: So you don’t call up Bob McNair or Jerry Jones and try to pull rank there?
WP: Nope.
JL: Tony Romo seems to get a lot more grief than he deserves. I don’t know if it’s because he’s in Dallas or what, but do you perceive that to be the case?
WP: When we were in Denver, a lot of people said the same thing about Elway. He hadn’t won it all, so people wondered how great he was. In my experience with Tony, we went 34-22 when I was there. He didn’t play in I think 5-6 of those losses, so I think his record there was pretty darn good. Plus, we had two playoff appearances and one playoff win. He had a pretty good run.
Read more: http://thebiglead.com/2014/11/12/a-long-conversation-with-wade-phillips/#sthash.elFtKYK7.uxfs
RG: Prior to this season you’d been working in football pretty much non-stop since 1969, and in the NFL since 1976. There was just one year off in-between. How much football are you watching this season?
WP: Pretty much every chance I get. Of course I’m probably watching more college football, too. I watch all the games. My wife goes crazy when I watch all eight of them at once. She has to go in the other room.
RG: So you’re watching the DirecTV Game Mix channel? Or, do you watch Red Zone?
WP: I’ll do both. I also go on the other channels and watch the games themselves. And I record some of the games, and go back in case I want to see the Texans, Cowboys, or Commanders — teams I’m interested in — I’ll record their games and look at them again.
RG: How often do you see announcers say something that you think is incorrect?
WP: Most of the time. Quite a bit, really. They don’t know a whole lot about it. They really don’t know zones from man-to-man. I’m talking about defenses. Some of the offensive stuff is pretty clear, but even then I’ll see a lot of mistakes as far as what they’re seeing, what’s happening, who’s fault it is — all those things.
JL: We saw you tweet a couple weeks ago from the upper deck of Jerryworld when you were watching your son coach for Washington. How did you get such plush seats?
WP: The visiting team always gets those. We were sitting way out there in Houston when Washington played the Texans as well. That’s just the seats you get.
JL: So you don’t call up Bob McNair or Jerry Jones and try to pull rank there?
WP: Nope.
JL: Tony Romo seems to get a lot more grief than he deserves. I don’t know if it’s because he’s in Dallas or what, but do you perceive that to be the case?
WP: When we were in Denver, a lot of people said the same thing about Elway. He hadn’t won it all, so people wondered how great he was. In my experience with Tony, we went 34-22 when I was there. He didn’t play in I think 5-6 of those losses, so I think his record there was pretty darn good. Plus, we had two playoff appearances and one playoff win. He had a pretty good run.
Read more: http://thebiglead.com/2014/11/12/a-long-conversation-with-wade-phillips/#sthash.elFtKYK7.uxfs
