Play Design Quotes

It's easy to draw up isolation basketball - it's not easy to draw up great motion offense with passing and cutting.

Plays are designed to attack certain coverages and schemes.

I've always been very intimately involved in the playcalling on game day.

Nobody I ever broke bread with, and I see players all the time, talked about using their head running the football.

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

In L.A., I think Sean McVay is one of the best play callers there is in the NFL, and I don't see him giving that up anytime soon.

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.

If you exhaust every play out of the pocket, what happens is you find more opportunities.

I think there's a lot that goes into an offense, obviously.

Long time ago, we used to sit around eating popcorn and drawing up plays.

I learned a lot of different offenses in this league.

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'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.

I got to talk with some of the great offensive minds in football. Bruce Arians, Byron Leftwich, Andy Reid, Ben McAdoo, Bill O'Brien, I met all those guys and tried to take something away from each of them. Hue Jackson, people that are known for developing quarterbacks, I got exposed to a lot of stuff I hadn't seen before.

I still have flash cards from when I was drawing plays when I was 10 years old.

There's always plays that Coach Reid just draws up every single week. I always say that they always work. He just gets on the board in his room and just starts drawing plays. The possibilities are endless.

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.

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.

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.

Sometimes you can have the quarterback and no system. Sometimes, you can have a system with an average quarterback and do well.