Paul DePodesta Quotes

Every game in the NFL is important.

It was not that long ago when the accepted wisdom in football was that the running game had to be established - that was always the obligatory verb: established - before passes could become effective. My, we know how that has changed. Now the pass is established from the get-go, and running is an afterthought.

We need a Moneyball revolution in the NFL. We need Spread teams and Run and Shoot teams and Option teams.

I'm trying to evolve with how football is going.

When I was growing up, I was a huge San Francisco 49ers fan. The New England Patriots have a similar mold and plan to win a lot of games - reminiscent to that Bill Walsh era.

I do catch NFL games every now and again, and it doesn't remind me of anything that I watch when breaking down opponents or watching college games on TV. It's completely different.

If quarterbacks learned the West Coast offense in college, oh man - it would make a huge difference.

I've been on a number of NFL teams, and a lot of them address situational football. But I've never been around a team that does it as meticulously as the New England Patriots.

If you're playing for 10 or 15 years, you can't every week run six option plays. It can be around. It can be a part of the game, but sooner or later you've got to deliver the ball from the pocket. That's the game. Now, if the game changes, and it's proven a championship can be won from the pistol spread, then I'm wrong.

I do follow the NFL. It took me a while to get back into it, but I do follow it religiously now. Huge Packers and Steelers fan.

I understand the business of the NFL.

I think I would have held my own in the NFL.

I love the NFL. Everything that I really have is because of the NFL... but every idea that the NFL pitched is not a great idea.

As bad as some of the teams in the NFL seem to be, they all have way more talent than any college.

I'm a football fan first and foremost, but I've been given an incredible opportunity to be a football coach in the National Football League.

They don't sell the Nathan's hot dogs hardly anywhere in the West Coast. So I have to special order them, and I just end up getting Nathan's to ship them to me.

The West Coast blew me up years ago. Ten years ago, I was already selling out five or six shows in a row in the West. Then all of a sudden, the Midwest, Chicago, Illinois, just embraced me so well.

If anybody should be a judge of quarterbacks, I've played with the most quarterbacks in NFL history throughout my first four years.

As far as the NFL experience, it's difficult. It's a ton of fun, but it's difficult.

I'm into having a good time and showing people you can have fun. Because for a long time, the West Coast, it wasn't about having fun. It was about gang banging; it just wasn't fun no more. So now I'm bringing fun back.

I'm a novelist from the Haisla and Heiltsuk First Nations of British Columbia, both small coastal reserves hugging the rugged shores of the west coast.

My brothers and sisters have achieved so much in their lives and have had so much success, but I'm just 17, so I'm still growing and learning. Since I have grown up on the West Coast, it definitely is different than all of them growing up on the East Coast. It's a different lifestyle, obviously, California vs. New York.

Every time you step in the stadium on Sunday, you're facing a good team. This is the NFL.

I know that to coach in the National Football League is an honor.

You can't talk about the NFL without the Raiders, the three Super Bowl championships, what Al Davis meant to the league.