Jim Otto Quotes

Even though you wouldn't want to line a D-lineman and running back up across from each other to block, when you get help initially from the guard, and then the defensive tackle gets picked up by the running back, it's not as bad as a lot of people would think versus if you're just putting that matchup on paper.

David Bakhtiari is a guy I like to watch. He's an exceptional left tackle.

Usually, you have one blocking, one catching tight end.

To survive in the NFC West, we have to win in the trenches.

You can't put a running back in there and have him not know who to pick up. You can't get your quarterback hit.

The National Football League is a very physical game.

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.

Willie Roaf kicked my butt a couple of times. Larry Allen was a guard, but one time in San Francisco he took me with one hand and threw me out of the play. Walter Jones was pretty tough, too.

The SEC is a line-of-scrimmage league. You'd better be good up front, or you're going to have some long days.

I'm just going out there and doing my job, so whatever it is - if it's a hard slide protection, if it's a double team, or even a triple team or a chip - whatever it is, I'm just finding ways to win, so that's about it.

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

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

You can dominate a game if you dominate on the line... We're just going to have to go out there and work hard and blow people off the ball, and let our runners do what they do best.

As a running back, it takes five offensive linemen, a tight end, a fullback and possibly two wide receivers, in order to make my job successful.

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.

The simplest way to win in the National Football League is to knock out the starting quarterback. You know, throughout the years, history has proven if your number one quarterback goes down, your chances for success become very limited.

Let me explain my job very simply: My job is to line up five, seven, 10 yards in front of a man and run into him at full speed.

At the highest level in the NFL, the pass game is as complex as you can imagine.

Whatever you want to call it, they have all these names for these coverages, I've seen them. Like those linemen coming out to jam me on the line of scrimmage. A lot of crazy stuff.

If it's an outside zone play, you have the green light to cut-block.

I'm really impressed with Kolb there in Philadelphia. He's a very talented quarterback.

The more space you have there, the better it is for the quarterback, because he's got room to move around there to avoid a rush. And also, after the point of contact, if the rusher does beat me, he still has to go another four yards before he makes a sack. Versus if you drop straight back, he only has to go two more yards.

Your run blocking looks pretty similar to what the pass blocking looks like when you're going with the play-action pass. So you really do have an opportunity to get really good at it quickly.

I've been in three offenses in the NFL. I think I'm pretty good now.