Tom Brady Quotes

I think there's a lot that goes into an offense, obviously.

At Golden State, it was basically a guard-oriented offense and it wasn't either around me or in my direction.

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?

Any time you can get the ball back to the offense and they put points on the board, you can win games.

If you're going to run a lot of plays, you better score a lot of points.

The triangle is a foundation to an offense.

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.

I don't love playing zone all the time, because it does have an effect on your offense.

If you're winning and can stay on the field offensively and move the ball, that's what we want.

Teams that just play on one side of the floor are going to struggle against defenses that load up on that side.

Anytime that anyone can create some explosive plays, get first downs, we're going to have more plays on offense.

I think you always try to put the offense in the best position to make good plays, which usually requires us to move multiple people around and give them an opportunity to impact a game in a lot of different ways.

We're going to try to tailor our offense to our player's ability.

It's football. The game hasn't changed. There's not tons of new concepts every year that go in. Offense is offense; it's our job to move the ball, to score points, and keep our defense off the field.

Offense is about rhythm and timing, and you're not going to always have that every game.

The bottom line is we need to score points, and we need to score a lot of them.

When you talk about forming an offensive identity, it's about, first, let's figure out what our players do best.

It's good to be able to run and have a balanced offense. They've got to be worried about both things. They can't just focus on the run game or the passing game and have us locked down that way. So when you have balance, good things are going to happen on offense.

You have to attack to get corners, no? Winning by scoring strategic goals doesn't bother me - it's part of the game.

The onus is on the managers to send out an attacking formation and to tell their players to be bold.

If I were a high school coach, I would put my best players on offense. The best athletes on my team, I would give them the ball and score points. I wouldn't play them on defense. I would play them where they can get the ball and score points.

When a big play occurs for our team, I'm concentrating on how the defense is reacting to it. Most of the time, I don't see the great catch or the long run. What I'm looking at is how the other team defended it.

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 not a guy that's going to shoot 10 3s a game - I like to get to the basket. But some of those shots I do gotta take. Some of those shots I gotta let fly.

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.