Passing Game Quotes

I kinda wanted to play receiver more.

There are a lot of good tight ends.

I was the center on our fraternity team, but I was a center-eligible, so I was known for my ability to go out, and I was pretty sure-handed catching a pass in the flat about ten yards down the field. My father played high school football and was pretty good. He also played center, so I always relished the idea that we both ended up playing center.

Manchester United are always a team that try to play football, try to play football from the back.

No quarterback goes out there and plays well on his own.

I think Barcelona and the Spanish national team have been good for soccer because there are a lot of teams that come up playing from the back: with the goalie, the defense, moving up a defender to midfield, playing attacking soccer. I think fans want to see that. They want to see beautiful soccer, a spectacle, and Barcelona does that.

Don't ever underestimate Mike Gundy throwing the ball with his quarterbacks.

With Bayern, we want a lot of ball possession and to control the play, so I operate sometimes like the 11th outfield player. Thus I am included a lot into the build-up play and have a lot of touches of the ball.

I love football. The games are a pure rush. By the time I'm done playing, I want to be among the best tight ends ever to play the game.

To use a basketball metaphor, West Wing cast was a group that liked to pass as much as they liked to shoot.

I think there's been a myth that QBs makes the WRs but it works hand and hand. QBs need good WRs to throw to in order to be great and WRs need good QBs to throw to them in order to be great.

I can be the only defensive midfielder and try and break up play. Or I can play a little more forward.

Statistically, the teams are getting the chunk plays - the explosives - are the teams that are going produce more yards and more points.

At some point, you're not going to be able to run the ball for 180 yards, even with the best running back in the NFL. That's when you have to be able to throw the ball.

It's kind of boring to me if teams never throw the ball.

The way Guardiola plays suits me. It enables me to get into space in attacking positions.

At Golden State, it was basically a guard-oriented offense and it wasn't either around me or in my direction.

It used to be that the hardest thing to cover was underthrown balls. Then coaches began to think, 'So why not start throwing back-shoulder fades?'

The glory of the big catch is applied more at wide receiver, and tight end would be an even match at my size. It's such a huge advantage being on the outside.

Before, when going to youth camps, the line for QBs would be around the corner. Now, kids want to be either QBs or WRs. Being a WR is popular, it's cool.

I was a receiver until I was a freshman in high school. I didn't play quarterback until I was a freshman.

In football, if you don't have the best O-line or receivers, maybe you're not as good of a quarterback as you can be. And it goes vice versa. If you're an average quarterback and you have a great O-line and great receivers, your play gets lifted.

I was a big receiver when I played in the NFL.

Arsenal's style of play is so smooth and easy and I hope I can adapt to their style quickly.

There is no defense against a perfect pass. I can throw the perfect pass.