Josh McDaniels Quotes

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

The reason I do not like to have much passing in my offense is that when you throw a foward pass, five things can happen and four of them are bad.

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.

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 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.

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

Running the triangle offense, you have pretty much set rotations where you are going to be at.

Installing a new offense is harder than a new defense. It just takes time.

The triangle is a foundation to an offense.

When you go into a game on offense, you make a couple moves and see what the defender is going to do. Then you pretty much can figure out what he is going to do against you - whether he carries his hands low or high, whether he is bumping or pushing, those type of things.

In football, time and space are the same thing.

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

What captains want is players who move well in the field.

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

I always think how I should play to make the most out of my teammates' abilities and their established styles.

Just hearing somebody's voice in center field, it helps our guards out to know where they need to go, when the screen is coming, when the back door is coming, when the flare is coming. When different things like that happen and we're talking, it helps us all out in the long run.

Well, it's about getting points. And there are different ways of getting points. Whether you're offensively good, capable of scoring enough goals to win enough games, or resilient enough not to lose too many.

If seven or eight players play offensively, then it's clear that the offensive force is greater than the defensive stability. That's what I often say internally.

In Italy, the coaches are very attentive to the details. They really study things, and that is a big difference here. They look at your movement, your positioning. They study you and work out how to stop you.

We can't see every small detail in football.

Without the hand check rule, players are more likely to work their way open.

As a holding midfield player, you want movement and to play between the lines.

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.

When teams are crowded in the paint, it's very hard to get in there and penetrate, but you got to find ways to get into transition and get into your strengths. It's a lot of thinking out there, you got to make sure you think and strategize.