Jake Witt

Ricky Williams says the worst coaching mistake is asking people to do things they can’t do “My favorite coach I ever had was Nick Saban, what I loved was he made the expectation clear. ‘This is your job. ‘This is exactly what we expect from you.’ ‘If you do this, we’re good. ‘If you don’t, there’s going to be issues.’ Those are the kind of coaches I love.” “The second thing is, some coaches have their system and they just say, ‘The guys have to fit in our system.’ My thing is, then make sure you draft the guys that fit in your system. Because the worst thing is you ask guys to do things that they can’t do.” “I want a coach that appreciates what I do well and gives me opportunities to do that, but also to get better. Norv Turner was offensive coordinator my first year in Miami. He loved gap scheme, and that’s my thing.” “We figured out he had a play called inside zone scissors. When I led the NFL in rushing, I probably had 75% of my yards off that one play. He realized that if you zone block, give me space and put a little misdirection in there, it’s going to be really hard for those defensive guys to get me. So we ran it over and over. And tore up the league doing it.”