Tom Herman Quotes

I would love to be a creative offensive consultant where I could help design and help create plays and ways to attack other teams without having the coaching schedule.

Coach Kiffin calls plays based on matchups and what he sees.

It's my job to get us in good plays, or more importantly, out of bad plays. That's what I did.

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.

I'd like to teach my players how to play and not just run plays.

Coaching was always intriguing to me as a kid. Watching 'Monday Night Football' with my dad and hearing him talk through the game management and watching the Tom Landrys and Don Shulas on the sideline was more intriguing to me than watching Troy Aikman or Dan Marino throw the ball.

When I got to college, my coach let me handle everything, from calling the plays to changing protections to checking in the run game. He let me do absolutely everything at the line.

Quarterbacks are leaders; it is what it is.

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.

In New England, I learned so much about football. I always thought I was a smart player, even though I never thought about anything but the six inches in front of my face. In New England, I was forced to learn so many schematic concepts.

I believe I am a player that can organise the game well for my team.

I don't second-guess our playcalling or wanting to throw it. Honestly, we've got terrific guys. We know how to matchup. We know how to get open. That part of our game is so intact.

There probably isn't another position in all of team sports that I can think of that has the same level of import as the quarterback.

The draft is like game day on a 3rd-and-5. You have a lot of plays you can choose from. You go with your gut, pick and play and hope it works.

When I was coaching, I was out there, and you're doing press conferences, and the fans see a lot more of the head coach than they do either the general manager or the president.

In L.A., I think Sean McVay is one of the best play callers there is in the NFL, and I don't see him giving that up anytime soon.

It's been a dream of mine to become a head coach in the NFL.

You make mental notes. You're a coach, so you make mental notes from matchups, to who steps up in the playoffs to who doesn't, different types of players.

As I go back and look at the film, if I look at my first year, every time I caught the ball, I was looking to do something.

If you are not playing a player, any player, for two, three, four games, then you don't have to give a reason for that. But if it gets to eight or nine games, then you have to explain the situation. What's going on?

In Rome, I was already trying to help in shaping the game, but the style was a little bit different to what we do at Liverpool.

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.

Whoever you are playing and whatever you are playing against you have to weigh up tactically how you approach that game. That has always been a part of my make-up, having made my way through every division and finding out what management is all about.

I was always taught that a catcher has to be the brains of the team.

As a player, I had no idea whatsoever about getting a team ready for a game, what it entails.