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At nose tackle, you don't have to run that much.
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.
Every team member has the responsibility to stop the line every time they see something that is out of standard. That's how we put the responsibility for quality in the hands of our team members.
Anybody who has watched me play knows I'm not one of the fastest guys, but I understand what's going on around me and what to look for. I know what the defense is doing.
As far as escaping and making plays, I have a lot of faith in our line.
The tackles are coming in thick and thin now.
Smart men play close to the line because they have to
some of them can't stand it, so they quit.
If theres an injury, for a couple games, you can have guys step in. But for a long period of time, it always catches up with you.
Anytime you've got a good running back, it will help your passing game.
The success I had as a player, or the career I had as a player, is often based on the guys you play beside, the guys you play with. Playing on the offensive line, you're only as good as your weakest guy up front. I was blessed to play with a lot of guys for a long time.
If I was going to play offense, I'd love to play running back. In high school I played quarterback and wide receiver, but I wouldn't mind running over some folks.
Micheal Barrow and Darrin Smith, those guys were really intelligent. They're smart football players. They'd always be a step ahead of the offense and could predict what was coming. Dan Morgan has that. Jonathan Vilma has that. Ray Lewis has that.
Whoever controls the line of scrimmage and wins up front is going to be the winner.
Rawls, the back-up running back (Tank wrenched his leg out of socket, which I didn't know was possible).
I had pro offers from the Detroit Lions and Green Bay Packers, who were pretty hard up for linemen in those days. If I had gone into professional football the name Jerry Ford might have been a household word today.
Third down and long is the toughest situation for any offensive coordinator in the NFL.
We protected Andre Johnson, given him long-term contracts. Brian Cushing's got a long-term contract. Arian Foster. So certain key players, core players, we've tried not to tie them up for a long period of time.
Guys are just too fast and too big in the NFL.
With the money I'm making, I should be playing two positions.
I have to go out there and show scouts and GMs and coaches just what I can do: Run as fast as I can and try to show them I have great hands and good technique where I can be on the line blocking.
Beyond the touchline there is nothing.
I feel like as a linebacker or a D-lineman, any cut, it's a man sport
be a man, hit me up high, Hit like rams. You don't see a ram going and cutting another ram's legs. They hit head to head, pad to pad.
The wide receiver position is such a complex position.
I always say we got 700 pounds of pork up front. They're going to hold guys down and allow us linebackers to make a lot of plays. Even in practice. I'm loving it, man.
My players on defense must have a hand-up on every shot. If not, they run sprints.
Center is a very tough position to play.
You want to have strong legs. You're in the trenches going against bigger guys in there, and you want to be able to have some force against them.
Defensive backs are the best players on the field. But when you get an exceptional player like a Deion Sanders or a Darrell Green - these guys are fast and they have very good technique. You have to work a little harder.
Name 12 players better than me.
When you hang with a bunch of 300-pound linemen, you tend to find the places that are the greasiest and serve the most food.
You never know what you're going to get as a receiver.
You take all the offensive linemen and put them in a burlap bag, and then you take a baseball bat and beat on the bag. You're sacking them. You're bagging them. And that's what you're doing with a quarterback.
Don't play for safety
All coaches are thinking men, or else they wouldn't survive.
I just don't feel like you can have enough speed pass rushers on your club.
Four times out of five the linesman gets a better view of the ball near him than the player himself.
I think that it definitely makes the transition easier being able to know linebacker and having also played on the defensive line. You can kind of know what they're expecting on the back end and what you are kind of expecting from them.
I don't think there's a position I couldn't play on this field.
Defensive backs are always trying to kill me, so I'm trying to get them first.
Defensively, I think it's important for us to tackle.
Referees and linesmen are killing teams.
You have to run the football and stop the run, no matter what level you play at, whether it's high school, college or professional ranks. I'm a firm believer in that.
I hate being out there with those garbage men. They don't get you the ball.
Amarillio, just turn to the left and 500 yards down
God bless those runners because they get you the first down, give you ball control and keep your defense off the field. But if you want to ring the cash register, you have to pass.
I see young quarterbacks just coming into the league, and they're throwing screens and layoffs right away. As funny as this might sound, I really learned a lot by going downfield, even in tight coverage.
I want to be one of the guys, but I also want to be 'the' guy, the guy that can go out there and they can rely on in crunch time. I'm going to be the guy that they know will show up every day, every game, every play and show up on a consistently great level.
You got to sue the offensive line for non-support
I learned from Chuck Noll in Pittsburgh that speed and explosiveness on defense is the way to build a team. Both are difficult for your opponent to assimilate in practice and then in games it is even harder to match.
The NFL offensive blocking is played differently; they use their hands instead of their head and shoulders.
I really like to play inside. I really like being able to go one-on-one with an offensive lineman every play. At defensive end, you're more running up the field and containing more than you are just against an offensive lineman.
I didn't play in the NFL, and I didn't play defensive line. But football, at the fundamental level, is football. It's about motivating people and getting the best out of them.
If you were in the Brondby dressing room right now, which of the Liverpool players would you be looking at?
What does this program/team need this week?
When you think of me as a football player, I would like for people to think that I put it on the line every time. Good or bad, win or lose, I put it on the line.
You can run a lot of plays when your X is twice as big as the other guys' O. It makes your X's and O's pretty good.
They didn't call me the hook,line, and sinker man for no reason.
We felt responsible for each other. The D-line's got to take care of that line of scrimmage, (the linebackers) have got to clean up, and the safeties and DBs take care of that back end. We felt we're a brotherhood and we just had to get it done.
Little known fact: offensive tackles score higher on the Wonderlic than any other position.
Understanding the intentions of a play is so key because you can block a guy into the running back if you don't know how the play is supposed to work or where the back is going to come out.
Now what Clan you know with lines this ill?
Bust shots at Big Ben, like we got time to kill.
In preseason camp, there are no friends. when newcomers arrive trying to take not only your job, but maybe your best friend's job, you work together to try to help each other. Everyone is an outsider until you're given a uniform.
If you want to be in the game you better shoot 75% from the line.
Defense is one man guarding the ball and four others helping him
The quarterback's spending so much time behind the center that he may jeopardize his right to lead a Boy Scout troop.
I'm on my high school football team and MUST show how much I know.
I would probably be a linebacker today. I wouldn't be carrying the ball 20 or 25 times a game.
Our whole philosophy was to intimidate the quarterback. We were able to do it. We were pioneers. People still recognize us as, maybe, the best defensive line of all time.
We might have the worst bunch of guys together we've ever seen as a football team. I don't know what anybody else has, but I'd trade mine with anybody, sight unseen.
I'm not playing for anybody but the guys in this locker room.
I told our guys they must not have cable because Antoine Walker knows how to play, Derek Anderson can play, Shandon Anderson knows how to play, and Gary Payton knows how play.
We need the quarterbacks. It's a passing league and a quarterback-driven league. We need the Peyton Mannings in football uniforms out there playing - the Tom Bradys, the Drew Breeses, the Philip Riverses - we need those guys instead of them standing on the sideline.
I appreciate men like Ben Webster and Coleman Hawkins very much.
Getting to the linebackers is difficult. Blocking them is another challenge.
Now, on the St. Louis team we have Who's on first, What's on second, I Don't Know is on third.
You're looking for players whose name on the front of the sweater is more important than the one on the back. I look for these players to play hard, to play smart and to represent their country.
The positions I played in football, being a quarterback and a defensive back, you had to kind of have a little independent thinking.
People would say I'm more polished as a passer than Tebow and Cam, but I'm not as physical a runner. But I am 6'2', 223, and I can throw with the best of them.
I play a complicated position in an intensely team-oriented game.
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Tight end is one of the hardest positions to play in football. It's right up there with quarterback and cornerback. You have to have the skills of a wide receiver and the strength of an offensive lineman, and it's not easy to balance those two.
I think there's a prototype we're all looking for, whether it's Brett Favre or Troy Aikman. And everyone's got that picture in their mind of the prototype at the position.
Ray Lewis knifed through those offensive linemen like a sucker-punch switchblade slicing between the ribs of some inebriated trash-talking punk outside a sports bar.
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Perry, Jeremy, Man, Just knowing that you guys look up to me, And I can help you out so much, I could pull you to the side when we're working out. And just as much as you think I'm making you better, You elevate my game.
I play defense and I'm a unique defender because I'm tall and slim but I also have great speed.
I was a pretty good DB, but I realized one day I would rather have someone trying to tackle me than me trying to tackle guys like Jerome Bettis and Eddie George.
I've tried to bring the mentality of the outside linebacker to the inside and the rough, tough style of an inside linebacker to the outside. The middle linebacker always has been known as kind of a big plugger. Outside guys are known to be able to run. I just try to make big plays wherever I am.
I tell you one you straight off in Scotland - Nick de Luca. I don't see his name quoted, but I've played against Nick quite a lot and he is a good player - one of the trickiest centres I've played against.
In the game of football, you need to be strong, and at my position, you need to be able to put up a good fight. So I work on my upper body and lower body strength because your body's got to be able to last.
I am a lineman for the county.
You continue to build and work on new things, and continue to beat offensive linemen, week in and week out.
In football, it's the ultimate team sport. You have to have good people around you as a quarterback for things to happen.
I go out there with whatever the coaches call, and whatever they do, I just go out there, and I'm the player. Coaches coach, and players play.
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.
There are only so many times I can say, 'I owe it to my offensive linemen,' or, 'The credit should go to my teammates,' before it becomes run down.
I'm taking T.O., every day ... He gives me the whole football field.
The quarterback must go down, and he must go down hard
You measure a player from the head up.
In the NFL, everyone's attacking, so you have to be quicker in your decisions.