Matt Cassel Quotes

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.

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 never know from week to week how one team is going to attack you versus another team.

No-huddle is something that I'm very comfortable with.

I'd like to improve on running plays. I want to see if I can hurt some more people. To me, I don't think I'm out there hurting enough people.

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.

Baseball, boxing, handball - sooner or later every game gets compared to narrative, but only in football are the plays perfectly linear, drawn up with letters, and only in football is the field itself lined like a sheet of notebook paper.

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

When a big play occurs for our team, I'm concentrating on how the defense is reacting to it. Most of the time, I don't see the great catch or the long run. What I'm looking at is how the other team defended it.

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

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

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

I would prefer to play for and against an attacking team, but I am now used to playing against defensive teams.

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.

Pep and his staff work very hard, not just on the training pitch but also with the analysis of opponents, and now, of course, we understand more how he wants to play.

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.

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.

Plays are designed to attack certain coverages and schemes.

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.

I want to attack matchups on special teams.

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 think as a play-caller, you have to just go out there, rely on your guys that you have that are out there, rely on the fact that they have ability. And as a quarterback, you have to go out there and just go through your reads.

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

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.