Brock Osweiler Quotes

I love the no-huddle.

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.

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.

That's the job of a quarterback, to go out there and be confident with the communication of the play, in the huddle and with my play.

A guy like Drew Brees is a guy that knows how to undress a defense. Most of the time he knows where he's gonna go before he even gets the ball. So he's ready to deliver that ball almost as soon as it comes to his hands.

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.

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.

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

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

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

My last two years at Fresno State were 100 percent no-huddle, and I love it. I'm very comfortable in it.

To show my quarterbacks how much I believe in them, I let them pick their favorite plays that we'll run in the game. On the nights before a game we'll sit down in a hotel conference room and we'll have six third-down calls for certain distances.

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.

The big thing is to win, but to look at the long-term, you need one way to play, and the philosophy is not only to put 11 players on the pitch and play football.

You can work on routes all day in practice but in the game what it comes down to is if somebody is open or not. You kind of go through your progressions and go through it that way.

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're never trying to have three-and-outs; I don't care what offense you're playing.

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.

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

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 going to play the quarterback position the way coaches install the plays; I'm going to go through the reads just like they install it.

How do you make a young quarterback better? You build a running game around him.

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.

Put on the game tape. The game tape speaks volumes because I'm in live action, I'm out there making reads, going through progressions, redirection protection, signaling hot routes, getting the offense in and out of the right play.