Man-to-Man Coverage Quotes

Plays are designed to attack certain coverages and schemes.

When someone's playing you man-to-man coverage, they're basically saying that guy's better than you. So that's why a lot of receivers feed off of that.

You have different schemes for different teams. Some teams blitz a lot, and some teams drop eight in coverage.

I think it's all machismo - 'Come on, you've got to guard your guy, man. If you can't guard your guy, then you can't play defence.' A lot of it is accountability, where you say, 'Hey, you're matched up with him. Go do your job.' The zone kind of sometimes moves a lot of pieces around.

Steve Smith, thats what happened to us. He just kept making plays. We had a plan. We never really doubled him. We ran a lot of Cover 2, and obviously that didnt work out too good for us.

I want to learn more about the game as a whole and about the finer points of technique across the line of scrimmage. I want to learn more about coverages and blitzes so I can kind of see the game before it happens.

There is always pressure playing cornerback. It's just a position where you're always in the spotlight.

I'm the best corner in the game. When you try me with a sorry receiver like Crabtree, that is the result you are going to get. Don't you ever talk about me.

You're out there on an island. It's just you and the best receiver, man-to-man, in one-on-one coverage a lot of the time. And you don't really get any help. If you get beat, everyone can see. If you get scored on, everyone knows. That's the difficulty of playing corner.

I like to get physical on defense. I like to get up on a guy as much as possible. I actually need to calm down, though.

I know that guys can't guard me one-on-one.

It's a difficult thing in this league to match up, to line up and play one-on-one football.

Remember, a receiver can motion wherever, run wherever he wants to on the field, you can't get your hands on the guy and there is a lot of room. When you are a corner, you are playing to the boundary, which is your friend.

Any time you roll up a corner and you have a safety standing behind him helping out the corner, it's frustrating for any player.