Kirby Smart Quotes

Don't ever underestimate Mike Gundy throwing the ball with his quarterbacks.

I think any time an offense struggles with developing a rhythm, struggles with scoring points, I think the first thing you have to examine is the quarterback.

Third down is a big thing with a quarterback: pinpoint accuracy, making good decisions.

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.

While it's great for a quarterback to have athletic ability, his goal is to get the ball out of his hand, orchestrate the offense and not allow his ability to stand in the way of the offense running efficiently.

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

It's hard to throw the football when you have some instability at quarterback or if you don't have the weapons around you.

All quarterbacks, each play is its own entity, and you can pick apart each play. Sometimes they do a good job getting to the checkdown, and sometimes they progress faster.

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

As a quarterback, you try to manage the game. It's not just throwing the ball. You have to manage the running game and getting out of bad situations and there are a lot of things to it. That's what I'm trying to do.

Young quarterbacks do well because they have a great defense.

We're not running the ball again until we get ahead. Shula was calling the plays, but I told them, 'I don't care what he calls. We're throwing every pass from now until we get the lead.' To Shula's credit, he always gave me that option.

Peyton Manning is doing things that I think no other quarterback in the history of the league has done at the line of scrimmage... I just think they are a team right now that's got a real chance to run the table.

I'm still going to have to go out and score, but defensively hopefully I can make them a little bit better.

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.

Some of the best quarterback play is when you're able to move in the pocket and still make throws down the field because it's not going to be clean every time.

You have to have a deep passing game within your offense. It's got to be incorporated in some form or fashion.

Part of having a great offensive staff is every week we look at different plays around the league and the collegiate ranks, and things that over the years that might fit what we do.

Statistically, the teams are getting the chunk plays - the explosives - are the teams that are going produce more yards and more points.

You add a good receiver and that will take pressure off your quarterback.

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

Not a majority of the offense is run for me to post. I'm fine with that, but I want to play better on the offensive end.

Are there things you can do with the rest of your personnel or are things you can do schematically to help a quarterback? I think so. But at the end of the day, that quarterback still has to be a driving force of your team, especially if you want to be a consistent winner over time.

Every week you go in and hope that you have production in the passing game and also in the running game.

I do not know if we play the most beautiful or attractive football, but we certainly play more intelligently, more functionally and more precisely than anyone else.