Matt Nagy Quotes

Football is one-third offense, one-third defense, and one-third special teams.

I think a punt can be a big play in a game. If it's anything like a real game, then you realize that a Pat McAfee punt that downs someone inside the 2-yard line can really swing a game. I'm all for punting in video games.

My main concern is when it's 2-0, I've got to keep it at 2-0. It gives us a little more of a chance. To give up four more runs, that isn't going to get it done. I don't care who you're facing or who you're playing, it's not going to get it done.

Punt returns will kill you quicker than a minnow can swim a dipper.

There's three parts to football: offense, defense, and special teams. You'd no more ignore special teams than you would offense or defense.

I think there's a lot of different ways to score points and win football games and be efficient offensively, just like there is on defense and special teams. That's what makes this great game so special.

It's just boring to see a team punt the ball and have the returner fair-catch the ball all the time.

Ultimately, the yards really don't matter. So you have to score enough points, and I have been fortunate in my career to have been around some really good play callers, starting with Gary Kubiak and then going with Kyle Shanahan and Sean McVay, and that was always at the forefront of our minds: How can we create explosive plays?

Nine times out of 10, if you win the game, it starts with the turnover battle.

Players lose you games, not tactics. There's so much crap talked about tactics by people who barely know how to win at dominoes.

I ran back punt returns and kickoff returns, and I played a pretty good game.

Any team, if you can rattle the quarterback you have an opportunity to win the game.

Don't play for one run unless you know that run will win a ballgame.

Go back through football, and you will see that the team with the best defense wins.

You have to take care of the ball to win football games.

If you're a quarterback and you keep throwing interceptions, you change quarterbacks.

You score runs to win games. That's how you do it.

Special teams is one-third of the game.

If you win the turnover battle and the explosive play battle in the same game, you win it 98 percent of the time. Now, can you win it with only winning one and losing one? Sure, but if you lose both of 'em, you only win 2 percent of the games where that occurrence happens.

When you play a great team like the Patriots, you can only kick so many field goals and stay in the game.

Any time you give up two shorthanded goals, you're not usually going to win.

My approach is going to be all about winning games. All the rest of that stuff will take care of itself.

If your quarterback can't make plays in certain situations for you to win games, he's not getting the job done.

It's fun to come in when it's first down. It's not fun to come back in when it's third-and-long.

It's a mystery coming out each and every game to try and figure out how a team is going to guard me and how I'm going to dictate how my team wins.