Sean McDermott

“I was a tough player, but I wasn't the most talented player.”

“There are no moral victories.”

“The team comes first. Not one person is more important than the other.”

“Every vacation was taking my brother and I to camp, whether it was football camp, wrestling camp, or whatever it was.”

“I've always had coaching in my blood. My dad was a college coach at West Chester and Ursinus so I had a feeling all along that I would coach.”

“For me coaching is about seeing a vision and trying to sell that vision to the players through a day to day teaching of the job.”

“In order to build chemistry you've got to really know one another.”

“You've got to win close games in the NFL.”

“I don't believe that playing video games in the locker room is part of earning the right to win.”

“Super Bowl parties are not my thing.”

“I think it's no accident that a number of coaches and personnel guys have come out of William and Mary. To me, it's a credit to the type of program Coach Laycock runs. There are set rules, there is clarity when it comes to expectations. You're expected to go to class and be a student-athlete. There are no cutting corners.”

“I'm probably not one of the more vocal people around, but I do watch, I do listen and I try to learn from the people I watch.”

“Josh Allen has a strong arm, we all know that... I've been around the league to know it's one of the stronger arms, but there a lot of guys with strong arms.”

“Being around a couple good tight ends in my history, both in Philadelphia and Carolina, namely in Chad Lewis and then in Greg Olsen, you see how that helps a young quarterback whether he becomes a security blanket, he can turn a five-yard completion into a 15-yard gain.”

“That's a sign of a good football team, where we can adjust and adapt to our surroundings.”

“I was the security guard that got stationed directly outside the Eagles locker room or on the field. I don't even know what I did. But there was Jon Gruden, Ray Rhodes, Emmitt Thomas, Danny Smith, all those guys that are legends of the game.”

“Regardless of what you do, or who you have, at the end of the day you have to be able to execute better than the defense does in order to score points.”

“Really what we've done is establish a tradition in Carolina of playing defense.”

“You've got to make tough decisions, sometimes unpopular decisions... Whatever it is, if it's the right move at the right time, you've got to be also willing to make mistakes.”

“There's a lot of 'who you know' in this business, and I don't think I skipped a step on the journey.”