Doug Baldwin Quotes

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

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.

Understanding the intentions of a play is so key because you can block a guy into the running back if you don't know how the play is supposed to work or where the back is going to come out.

It actually took me a year to learn how to play running back - to understand what they were doing defensively and then what our guys were doing every single play.

The game's just slowed down for me a little bit and I'm able to read the defenses and see how they're playing me.

I feel like I know what defensive backs are going to do before they do it.

Oftentimes, the post safety will eye me up pre-snap a lot of times and know where I am.

A defensive coordinator is always going to try to throw you something different and get you out of your element, and I have to do better with the pass protection.

You don't want to give the defensive back any signals about what route you're going to run.

As an offensive lineman, having spatial awareness is key: understanding where the quarterback is going to be and understanding what the defensive end might do depending on the play we're running.

I feel that a lot of people say that your best passing attack is having a good run game. I couldn't agree more with that.

When you play with good players, they will always create chances for the forwards to score.

When I'm lined up in the middle, it's a lot of freelancing and blitzing.

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

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

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.

Football is about scoring, and if you want to do that, you have to go forward.

We work on our set pieces for every opponent. It's a moment of the game that requires a lot of hard work, defensive and offensively. We try to invest our time in set pieces.

I think there are different kinds of quarterbacks, and if you look at any offense, there are different kind of quarterbacks, but you play to the strengths of whoever the quarterback is for the team.

Even as a coach, sometimes you forget the little intricacies of the offense, the details of the routes, the timing of the footwork, and the timing of the offensive tackles with the different sets that they have.

I'll be in a cadence, and I'll start to see one thing that a defense is starting to do, I'm like, 'I saw that two months ago on film.' And then that triggers whatever call you need to make.

You've got one football and a lot of times, defenses dictate where the ball goes.

You have to be able to recognize defenses on your own in pro football. You can't look to the sideline and read some board. You've got to recognize the defense on your own, and then you've got to communicate to your offensive teammates what you want them to do.

Plays are designed to attack certain coverages and schemes.

My reads, operation with the offense, timing with the receivers, routes, sitting in the pocket, trusting my line - everything is always a work in progress.