Lamar Jackson Quotes

I like to push the ball down the field when it's there. There's also times you just take the underneath one.

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.

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

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

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.

Most of the time, you're just trying to be the point guard out there based on the play call and the defense that you're getting; that really dictates where the football goes.

What made me so different is they would use me all over the place instead of the traditional tight end where you're taking off right next to the left tackle or right tackle. They would split me out wide and put everybody on the other side and throw me jump balls, they'd throw slants.

It's a scary thing when a team don't know who to match up to, whose night it's going to be on the offensive end.

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.

Football is open; it is not only keeping possession of the ball and making more passes.

I came from a high school where I didn't have a playbook or anything like that. Coach would draw it up and get the headset on, and we'd go after it.

Both sides of the game, defensively and offensively, are important.

The most important thing is to help the team to come in front of the goal with one-two passes, I drop down, or I give them space, because for defenders, it's always difficult to have a false nine because they don't have a direct player against them, so they don't know exactly what to do.

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.

My job is to make the quarterback position as easy as we can.

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.

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

You have to win on the ball.

We try and play football in a positive way. Any team has to be defensively organised, but you have to look at the attributes of the players and play to their strengths.

When teams play good football, it tends to create chances for the striker.

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.

I stay in the middle and my team-mates can go to attack.

You can't just limit yourself to underneath routes and let the defense kind of sit on those things.

If you're going to run a lot of plays, you better score a lot of points.

This is football, so you need to be clever to understand the moment and win games.