The Maxims

2008 September 11
by Jai Eugene

(Received via Email with a couple modifications)

General Neyland’s 7 Maxims

1. The team that makes the fewest mistakes will win.

2. Play for and make the breaks and when one comes your way – SCORE.

3. If at first the game – or the breaks – go against you, don’t let up… put on more steam.

4. Protect our kickers, our QB, our lead and our ball game.

5. Ball, oskie, cover, block, cut and slice, pursue and gang tackle… for this is the WINNING EDGE.

6. Press the kicking game. Here is where the breaks are made.

7. Carry the fight to our opponent and keep it there for 60 minutes.

Phillip Fulmer’s 7 Maxims

1. The team that makes the fewest mistakes usually beats us.

2. Play for and make the breaks and when one comes your way – for God’s sake don’t give the ball to Foster in the Red Zone!

3. If at first the game – or the breaks – go against you, give up; there’s always next year (for me anyway).

4. Protect my endorsements, salary, and bonus by sitting on our lead, no matter how marginal.

5. Ball, oskie, cover, block, cut and slice, pursue and gang tackle… if we practiced this more, I probably wouldn’t panic and choke, but there’s no way to be sure.

6. Press the kicking game. Here is where the breaks are made… If I believed this, I’d hire a special teams coach.

7. Carry my doughnuts to my office door and they better be hot!

5 Responses leave one →
  1. 2008 September 11

    Who is that #10 guy in the picture?

  2. 2008 September 11

    Funny. Phils number 7 is great

  3. 2008 September 11
    zigzag permalink

    Crompton is the problem.

  4. 2008 September 11
    zigzag permalink

    There was this quote by Crompton in a Memphis paper today, “We have a good passing game.” He needs to look at the UCLA film again and ask himself where it is.

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