Pass Coverage Quotes

You know what? For myself, I kind of like the spy because it takes another guy out of coverage or another guy out of rushing.

The nickel spot, inside. It's the hardest position to play. It's harder than outside.

Any defensive coordinator is worried about two things: a running quarterback and a deep ball. You know, don't get beat deep and don't let the quarterback run, because a big part of your defense can't account for the quarterback as a runner, so he gets a free run.

Most people would say safety was my best position. To me, the biggest challenge and most gratifying thing I got out of playing football was playing corner, because it was a bigger challenge than playing safety. Playing corner provided me my biggest thrills and my biggest headaches.

A lot of times, I go and face the top receiver, and that's a task... it comes with the territory, and I never back down from that challenge.

If all you ever play with a cornerback in there is man to man, it is a disadvantage.

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 prefer to play inside linebacker.

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

I do like playing strong safety.

You can't stop me in bump. And you definitely can't stop me playing off. You just try to contain me and stop me from getting a lot of catches.

The Raiders took me fourth overall because they had a certain need, and that was for me to come in and play man-to-man, bump-and-run all day, to guard the best receiver. You understand your job going in, so that's what you focus on. Would I have liked to play receiver and go both ways? Yep, would have loved to have done that.

If I'm playing bad, then I know we're not winning a lot of games, and we're definitely not No. 1 in pass defense.

You see some of these guys that lead in sacks every year, but they only play on third down or only play in certain situations.

Defenses usually are trying to take away the guys who are getting a lot of catches earlier in the season.

As a cornerback, you only get probably about 5 chances to really impact the game.

I didn't really like playing free safety. I didn't like being in the middle of the field.

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.

I feel like if they put the ball in the air, it's my ball. It's either a PI or it's my ball.

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.