Matt Nagy Quotes

Plays are designed to attack certain coverages and schemes.

I want to learn more about the game as a whole and about the finer points of technique across the line of scrimmage. I want to learn more about coverages and blitzes so I can kind of see the game before it happens.

A lot of different things go into calling the run game - especially at the line of scrimmage.

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.

We have what we call a dictator offense. We dictate to defenses by making them do what we want them to do. And we do it by creating formations.

You've probably heard from 100 different people that the Patriots are a game plan offense. Here's what that means: We're going to watch the defense specifically to identify their tendencies, what they do situationally and what their philosophy is.

I'm used to the two tight-end sets.

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.

In football, when I break the line of scrimmage, I see a player in front of me, a defender, and already in my head I'm thinking, 'I'm going to make him miss.' So I'm already looking at the next defender like, 'OK, how can I set this guy up to get him out of position, too?'

When you can get o-linemen guessing about what you're going to do, that means you're already winning before you start.

I don't want to just be the guy to dump the ball off to or the guy who can do the checkdowns.

I'll make changes at receiver before I make a change at the quarterback.

I could never understand why they did that to Barry Sanders in Detroit. I know that's one of the reasons why he retired, because they took him out on third down and let someone else catch the ball. I thought they must be out of their mind because Barry is such a threat.

Everyone does things differently on offense. Everyone's goal is to score points.

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

I'd say that, 99 percent of the time at Nevada, I knew what the coverage was and where I was probably going before the ball was snapped. It makes it very easy when I only had to read one person and know that I was going from here to here, and if not, I'm checking it down.

You have to learn the playbook inside and out. You have to learn code words for each play. You have to learn defenses.

I played every position, from right tackle to quarterback and everything in between.

Remember that. I ran from the line of scrimmage.

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

A quarterback is always going to be the most valuable player on a football field because he touches the ball every single offensive play.

So the truth is, if there's a lesson to be learned from mobile quarterbacks, it is deliver the ball from the pocket, which demands mastery of the data that is involved working in the pocket, which is, 'I know everything about everything.'

I would love to be a creative offensive consultant where I could help design and help create plays and ways to attack other teams without having the coaching schedule.

At some point, you're not going to be able to run the ball for 180 yards, even with the best running back in the NFL. That's when you have to be able to throw the ball.

From the standpoint that you try to adjust your offense to your quarterback, you try to adjust your football team around your players. You do the best you can with the hand that you have, and you've got to add some parts along the way.