Doug Pederson Quotes

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

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

We have to let our defense dictate our offense.

We're trying to win football games, and whoever we feel like gives us the best chance is who's going to play behind center.

On one-on-one, I'm either trying to get the first down or trying to score.

I worked the Giants win over the Texans earlier this season. The Giants ran the heck out of the ball. Eli Manning rolled out away from Watt just about every time and changed the release point on his passes. The Cowboys have a road map.

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.

The game of football, especially in the NFL, is all about situations, and coming out on the big end of that stick.

Third down and long is the toughest situation for any offensive coordinator in the NFL.

The Bears treat offense as if it's bubonic plague.

There's three parts to football: offense, defense, and special teams. You'd no more ignore special teams than you would offense or defense.

Everybody thinks when I say a guy is a good game manager, that's a negative, but I think it's a real positive. You have the ball in your hand every time when you're a quarterback. Whether you're handing it off or throwing to somebody, I think that's extremely important.

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

I've tried to get cute - and I don't mind saying tried to be cute - at the quarterback spot.

If you're a quarterback and you keep throwing interceptions, you change quarterbacks.

If you pay a QB $10 million, you don't want him to run the ball.

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

As a quarterback, you certainly don't want to hamstring your team in any way because - I know this more than anyone - you rely so heavily on those playmakers around you.

Regardless of what you do, or who you have, at the end of the day you have to be able to execute better than the defense does in order to score points.

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

I feel like, even if a guy is covered, I can put the ball where it needs to be so we can have a successful play.

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?

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

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