Matt LaFleur Quotes

I think I'm very good at reading coverage and knowing where I want to go with the ball before the ball is snapped.

While it's great for a quarterback to have athletic ability, his goal is to get the ball out of his hand, orchestrate the offense and not allow his ability to stand in the way of the offense running efficiently.

I'm a big believer in your offensive limitations come from your quarterback.

Understanding the intentions of a play is so key because you can block a guy into the running back if you don't know how the play is supposed to work or where the back is going to come out.

I haven't seen a new football play since I was in high school. You have just so many holes in a line and you have eleven men playing, and there's only so many ways you can go through those holes, and those ways have been used for forty, fifty years.

To win those big games you're going to have to complete some third-down passes, you're going to have to be able to get some explosive games in the passing game.

In football, time and space are the same thing.

Third down is a big thing with a quarterback: pinpoint accuracy, making good decisions.

Any time a quarterback can protect the ball and not throw interceptions, that's huge.

As a quarterback, you certainly don't want to hamstring your team in any way because - I know this more than anyone - you rely so heavily on those playmakers around you.

I'm a drop-back passer, and those seldom win Heismans.

The best advice I try to give a young quarterback is, you need to know what you're doing. You need to know what you're doing, because if you know where to go with the football, you can get rid of it and throw it and you won't get hit.

I'm going to play the quarterback position the way coaches install the plays; I'm going to go through the reads just like they install it.

Put on the game tape. The game tape speaks volumes because I'm in live action, I'm out there making reads, going through progressions, redirection protection, signaling hot routes, getting the offense in and out of the right play.

You don't want to give the defensive back any signals about what route you're going to run.

A guy like Drew Brees is a guy that knows how to undress a defense. Most of the time he knows where he's gonna go before he even gets the ball. So he's ready to deliver that ball almost as soon as it comes to his hands.

I want to know what coverage it is every single time. I want to line up and be able to read what the defense is trying to do to me so I can get open.

When you're dropping back and everything's going on, part of you wants to force it, but you have to make the right decision and not force the ball and sometimes throw it away.

As a wide receiver, you don't want to feel that the quarterback is only going to throw you the ball if you're wide open.

Most of the time, you're just trying to be the point guard out there based on the play call and the defense that you're getting; that really dictates where the football goes.

There is not some secret formula, it comes down to completing passes, being efficient on first and second down and making plays when the ball is in your hands.

Sometimes, they do a great job covering everyone downfield, so you just have to checkdown and hit a tight end to convert. That's just how we play ball.

It's easy to sit in the press box and say, 'Hey, they should run the ball.' Come down and stand on the sideline with me and make decisions. You should run it here, you should pass it here, let's throw a screen here, let's get the quarterback out of the pocket right here.

I worked the Giants win over the Texans earlier this season. The Giants ran the heck out of the ball. Eli Manning rolled out away from Watt just about every time and changed the release point on his passes. The Cowboys have a road map.

You can't just limit yourself to underneath routes and let the defense kind of sit on those things.