Matt LaFleur Quotes

I want to learn more about the game as a whole and about the finer points of technique across the line of scrimmage. I want to learn more about coverages and blitzes so I can kind of see the game before it happens.

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.

You have different schemes for different teams. Some teams blitz a lot, and some teams drop eight in coverage.

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

When you can get o-linemen guessing about what you're going to do, that means you're already winning before you start.

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.

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

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.

I don't love playing zone all the time, because it does have an effect on your offense.

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

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.

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.

I want to know what coverage it is every single time. I want to line up and be able to read what the defense is trying to do to me so I can get open.

To me, the most fun games are where we get in the no-huddle, we get in kind of a groove and the defense has a Mike linebacker who can go no-huddle with you.

A lot of different things go into calling the run game - especially at the line of scrimmage.

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.

I haven't seen a new football play since I was in high school. You have just so many holes in a line and you have eleven men playing, and there's only so many ways you can go through those holes, and those ways have been used for forty, fifty years.

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.

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'll make changes at receiver before I make a change at the quarterback.

I could never understand why they did that to Barry Sanders in Detroit. I know that's one of the reasons why he retired, because they took him out on third down and let someone else catch the ball. I thought they must be out of their mind because Barry is such a threat.

Everyone does things differently on offense. Everyone's goal is to score points.

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.