Matt Cassel Quotes

When handling the ball, I always would look for daylight, wherever there was daylight.

Rushing the ball is all about ball control. If you run the ball, you control the clock. If you control the clock, you usually control the game.

In football, time and space are the same thing.

There's always areas of the game you want to improve. For me, specifically, yards after the catch, making those tough, contested catches.

I've always been the point guard, always been the floor general out there, and it's helped me see things I didn't previously see on offense from a shooting guard standpoint.

I played number 6 in rugby league so I had the ball quite a lot. I tried to make the plays, so you are in the action.

You take your shots when you have them, and I threw a lot of touchdowns, but I'm always going to take care of the football in the red zone.

As a player I was taught the importance of working four or five passes within your team and then stretching the play. That's something I believe in strongly as a coach.

Football is about scoring, and if you want to do that, you have to go forward.

When I scramble and do those things, I try to look downfield, look for the playmakers, put it in their hands, and let them make all the big plays happen.

When I get the ball, I have to be ready to be in scoring mode.

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.

I have to make sure that we're in the right plays and I can get the ball out quickly and get into our playmakers' hands.

I know that if something isn't open down field I can take advantage of my legs and make a play.

Having the ball in my hand all the time and making plays, it was bound to come to a point where I knew where to get the ball to, who and when to give the ball to somebody. Just making the right decisions when I have it.

It starts the fast-break a lot easier when I get the ball. I don't have to wait for big men to give me it. Just get it and go.

If you can put your hands on the receiver and get to him fast, that messes up everything for them. If I don't put hands on him, he's probably going to beat me on the route.

I like it when the team is in control of the match. I like very much the ball possession; I like to play in the other half.

I'd much rather throw for a touchdown than run for one.

When I'm in the pick-and-roll, I'm looking to be a playmaker first and to score second. When I'm playing off the ball and I catch the ball, I'm looking to be a scorer first and a playmaker second.

I know wide receivers.

In the middle, it gives you lots of options. You can make a run on the right, on the left, deep in the center. It's a big advantage.

I always try and get as many as touches as I can with the ball because that's the most important thing for me as a player is to feel comfortable in that way.

Every time I run a route, I try to make it seem like I'm running a different route than I'm actually running so I can get open.

I like throwing touchdowns instead of running them.