I'm a football coach. I'm not a doctor ... They don't call plays, I don't do surgeries. We have a great deal here.
The third-down sacks are critical ones, 'cause that's getting off the field.
Quarterbacks coach, I would do at Tennessee. Head coach? Absolutely not.
Third down is a big thing with a quarterback: pinpoint accuracy, making good decisions.
Remember that. I ran from the line of scrimmage.
The amount of pressure that I've put on myself as a defensive coordinator for the last 10, 11 years, I really believe there's a lot more decisions that go into that position than the head coach.
When I work a game as an analyst, all I do is look at the game like a coach.
Some coaches and quarterbacks over-analyze things at times. Sometimes it can be pitch and catch, let the play-makers make plays.
I played 51 percent of the snaps outside, though. But you can go ahead and call me a slot as well.
I have to make sure I'm making the right play at the right time.
You look at Matt LaFleur and where he's been. It seems like successful quarterback play follows him.
When I got to college, my coach let me handle everything, from calling the plays to changing protections to checking in the run game. He let me do absolutely everything at the line.
I definitely wanted to be playing the quarterback position.
I want to be a coach one day. This is important to me. I think I have a pretty good foundation of football schemes and X's and O's.
I think audibles, the way people talk about it, it's overrated.
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 like my kind of innate and natural ability in the pocket, and ability of anticipation, and all that stuff that's important when it comes to playing quarterback.
You can't put a running back in there and have him not know who to pick up. You can't get your quarterback hit.
A defensive coordinator is always going to try to throw you something different and get you out of your element, and I have to do better with the pass protection.
Nobody I ever broke bread with, and I see players all the time, talked about using their head running the football.
I love coaches that just talk about football.
Football is a game of speed and drama.
I actually watched Tom Brady a good amount in college. My coach in college was Kliff Kingsbury, and he actually was a backup for Brady at one point, and so he showed me things that he liked with Tom and his pocket movements and stuff he did within the pocket that I've tried to put in my game a little bit.
Sure, luck means a lot in football. Not having a good quarterback is bad luck.
To show my quarterbacks how much I believe in them, I let them pick their favorite plays that we'll run in the game. On the nights before a game we'll sit down in a hotel conference room and we'll have six third-down calls for certain distances.
