Oftentimes, you have to be able to throw it in order to run it.
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.
Call me a quarterback, not a running quarterback.
I break down the tape like I'm a quality-control coach, just like I was with the Packers in 1992. I break it down by hand, every play.
I could never understand why they did that to Barry Sanders in Detroit. I know that's one of the reasons why he retired, because they took him out on third down and let someone else catch the ball. I thought they must be out of their mind because Barry is such a threat.
I was mainly a blocker in college. I mainly lined up in the backfield at fullback.
Even as a coach, sometimes you forget the little intricacies of the offense, the details of the routes, the timing of the footwork, and the timing of the offensive tackles with the different sets that they have.
The quarterback position gets a lot of attention.
On one-on-one, I'm either trying to get the first down or trying to score.
Plays are designed to attack certain coverages and schemes.
I've always been very intimately involved in the playcalling on game day.
In playoff football, you've got to be physical. You've got to run the ball.
Statistically, the teams are getting the chunk plays - the explosives - are the teams that are going produce more yards and more points.
If you're going to run a lot of plays, you better score a lot of points.
It's football. The game hasn't changed. There's not tons of new concepts every year that go in. Offense is offense; it's our job to move the ball, to score points, and keep our defense off the field.
The draft is like game day on a 3rd-and-5. You have a lot of plays you can choose from. You go with your gut, pick and play and hope it works.
I am not now, nor will I ever be, a candidate for offensive coordinator of Iowa.
I think one thing as far as my learning curve and what I'm learning - there is a time to take a sack, and then there is also a time to try to find a way to maybe throw the ball at a receiver's feet.
I'll make changes at receiver before I make a change at the quarterback.
You have different schemes for different teams. Some teams blitz a lot, and some teams drop eight in coverage.
I would start with the most important thing a quarterback has to be: poised. If you panic in that pocket, you are no good. I don't care what else is there; you have to be poised.
My job is to throw passes and be a leader.
It's good to be able to run and have a balanced offense. They've got to be worried about both things. They can't just focus on the run game or the passing game and have us locked down that way. So when you have balance, good things are going to happen on offense.
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.
Some of the best tape that I've ever studied was Mike Shanahan and John Elway in Denver, back-to-back Super Bowl win teams.
