Passing Plays Quotes

As a wide receiver, you don't want to feel that the quarterback is only going to throw you the ball if you're wide open.

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.

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

You dream about being in the shotgun and letting your receivers go to work, and making plays with no time left. That's definitely been a dream of mine my whole life.

My reads, operation with the offense, timing with the receivers, routes, sitting in the pocket, trusting my line - everything is always a work in progress.

I don't think it's much different at this level. It just feels like playing high school football, college football. It's the same games, the same routes.

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.

Like most tight ends I was a pass-receiving tight end coming into the league.

I worked the Giants win over the Texans earlier this season. The Giants ran the heck out of the ball. Eli Manning rolled out away from Watt just about every time and changed the release point on his passes. The Cowboys have a road map.

Most of the time, you're just trying to be the point guard out there based on the play call and the defense that you're getting; that really dictates where the football goes.

Sometimes, they do a great job covering everyone downfield, so you just have to checkdown and hit a tight end to convert. That's just how we play ball.

To win those big games you're going to have to complete some third-down passes, you're going to have to be able to get some explosive games in the passing game.

I played every position, from right tackle to quarterback and everything in between.

College has become a wide-open game - a lot of short passes, quick passes. Then you go to the pros and it's a whole different ballgame - things are happening faster, the patterns have to be more precise. Getting off the line of scrimmage is more difficult.

At the highest level in the NFL, the pass game is as complex as you can imagine.

I don't second-guess our playcalling or wanting to throw it. Honestly, we've got terrific guys. We know how to matchup. We know how to get open. That part of our game is so intact.

I like to run the slants. The slants are cool. I like routes that you can catch the ball running.

Pass a lot, use some reverses and toss in a gadget play once in a while for the TV audience. None of that detracts from winning.

It's easy to sit in the press box and say, 'Hey, they should run the ball.' Come down and stand on the sideline with me and make decisions. You should run it here, you should pass it here, let's throw a screen here, let's get the quarterback out of the pocket right here.

While it's great for a quarterback to have athletic ability, his goal is to get the ball out of his hand, orchestrate the offense and not allow his ability to stand in the way of the offense running efficiently.

If quarterbacks learned the West Coast offense in college, oh man - it would make a huge difference.

The more carries you get, the better you see the field, see the way that the defense is playing you.

I'm good at extending plays and finding throwing lanes.

I learned a lot of different offenses in this league.