Top Three Quotes From Jonathan Gannon's Press Conference
The Arizona Cardinals introduced Jonathan Gannon earlier this week as their replacement for Kliff Kingsbury.
Gannon - joined alongside owner Michael Bidwill and general manager Monti Ossenfort - spoke for nearly 30 minutes.
Here's the three best quotes from Gannon:
End of opening statement
"I look forward to working with the players. That was very appealing to me (with) some of the guys that we have on board right now. Not too many times do you take over a team and you have a franchise quarterback, so that was very appealing. I’ll head some of this stuff off right now before, we get to questions and things like that, but just know this, we’re going to be very adaptable.
"I’m talking the Arizona Cardinals. This is what our team’s going to be. We’re going to be adaptable; we’re going to be violent, we’re going to be explosive, and we’re going to be smart. All three phases go into that, and we will maximize the talents of the players that we have. That’s how we’re going to win games, and don’t get it twisted— we’re going to win games."
On the perception around Arizona heading into his interview
“Very easy for me. One, I don’t care about people’s opinions. I really don’t, besides the people that are I’m working with and the players. I don’t hear any outside noise. I don’t pay attention to it because if you do that, then you’re not really being where your feet are. You’re letting other people’s opinions drive your own feelings and emotions, so I don’t do that. When I came in here and interviewed, I had a very open mind, and I used the interview to explain my vision. I really wanted to see if my vision for running a team matched up with Michael’s and Monti’s, and it did. It became very clear and evident before I was supposed to fly back where I said, ‘I want to stay for dinner.’—and I ended up staying for dinner— that I wanted this job. I’m glad we got to make it happen, so that’s probably my answer to the part of your question.”
On player accountability
“You guys don’t have the time for me to answer that question, with everything that we’re going to do here. Player accountability is, is simply this: you have to define what winning behavior is and hold people to that standard. It’s as easy as that. It’s your daily actions with what you’re doing on a daily basis to improve yourself as a player and as a team. Accountability is just not a negative. It’s a positive too. So, when people do the right thing that shows that’s winning behavior. You’re going to see that our guys, we’re going to love them up.
"As hard we’re going to be on our guys, we’re going to love them up even more. That’s, that’s how you win games. I think that ultimately, we’re going to show them the way that we want things done. The players sitting here right now are going to take it over because the ultimate accountability comes from not wanting to let your teammate down and how you’re going about your business. So, there are a lot of different ways to get that done and I look forward to doing that with our guys. That’ll be one of the major things that we hold our hat on.”
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