Famous Quotes & Sayings

We were working on a field zone blitz and one of the people didn't cover their responsibilities and ultimately we paid for it. It was played extremely well except for that one thing. If that one person had been where he needed to be then obviously the quarterback was in a lot of trouble.

This will be a new kind of challenge. From what we understand, they're going to blitz more than half the time. It's going to be a challenge for (quarterbacks Brad) Guidry and Danna and for our big boys to make sure they pick it up.

Offensively, we have to eliminate mental mistakes. We didn't pick up the blitzing linebackers at all last week and Southwest likes to blitz their linebackers. We have worked hard this week and I expect our offensive line and fullback to do a better job.

Cris Collinsworth

Oh, a Gregg Williams defense will blitz you.

Thomas Brooks

Defensively, they're a 4-3 and they're aggressive, send people and stay in man. We have to have people in position or they'll take advantage. Our offense has to stop the blitz and give Kerry time. If we do that and put Kendall in the secondary, we'll be successful.

Steve Spurrier

Defense was putting pressure on us. They had some good blitz schemes going.

The state has a pretty good media blitz going on.

They stunt and blitz a lot, so it's a matter of shutting down some of those stunts up front. I think if we can stop some of the stunts there should be some holes to run in.

This is undoubtedly a public relations blitz by Wal-Mart. They're trying to fend off state legislation, so this sounds like rather empty rhetoric. For a company that's virtually larger than any company in the world to be crying that they don't have the resources, I don't think too many people are going to give much credence to that.

As for Nevis, the Chelmsford was her third run in and it was Natural Blitz's first run back. I think Natural Blitz has more improvement in him than she does.

Joe Thomas

The big thing is just how they never get beat. In pass rushing, they're always on. You never see them on the edge of somebody. You never see them missing a blitz pickup or something like that. I also try to pick up little technique things that maybe we won't have time to go over in practice.

They mix in a lot of stunts. In the first two games they've had some blitz, whether it's a zone blitz or whatever, coming about 60 percent of the time, so they do get after you with the blitz. They are very, very physical and very sound in what they do.

They have 17 (officially 16) sacks in two games, but if we execute our job, we don't have to worry about that. We have to worry about ourselves and not worry about what they do. They blitz a lot. We know what they're capable of doing and we've got to execute our jobs and be prepared for that.

They had a good plan. We did what we do best, which is a heavy blitz and play zero coverage, but they had a good plan for it. They were able to get some double moves on us and make some plays.

David Carr

They had a good blitz package, and they are going to get their share. They are going to get you. That's why they are a good defense.

David Carr

They had a good blitz package, and they are going to get their share. But what you have to do is throw it away and try to make a positive out of it.

Bernie has done a fine job positioning the product, ... orchestrating a media blitz that has resulted in a sell-out before it hits the shelves.

Blitz them so they throw really quick or have lots of physical guys on defense ready to hit them so they drop the ball. You have to be risky, take a gamble. It's all about timing, when to call the blitz or not.

Washington is a lot like we are. They like to run the football and they like to blitz a lot on defense. I know Coach (Joe) Slocum will have his kids ready to play. We are hoping to build on the momentum we gained last week.

They are always looking to bring a linebacker on a blitz from somewhere.

We tell Brandon he has one person to beat. We feel there's going to be some kind of blitz or seepage and he has to be able to recognize that and get away from that. When you do that, someone's going to be open in the secondary and Chris was wide open.

Casey Hampton

We try to start fast because we feel that if we get up on somebody we're in good shape, and then we go after them on defense. We try to smother them on defense and stay up on them. A lot of times when you blitz like we do and the team is down, they get to panicking and it's tough for them to come back.

There's no doubt about it, if I was Houston, that's what I would do. I would blitz and blitz and blitz. I expect everything but the kitchen sink being thrown at us.

There's nothing particular - not one player or one protection, and they had the right blitz on - that's going to happen at times. But the quarterback not getting it out, the coach saying, 'Hey, I should have called this protection in that situation' - that all has an effect, and as soon as we minimize those, we'll be better off.

Andy Reid

I like his size and the way he runs the football. I thought he did a nice job of catching the football and I thought he was good in blitz pickup, recognizing people coming. Before he went to Miami, I thought he was a heck of a running back and he was in a numbers situation down there and his number was out. He is a good football player.

Ray McDonald

It's a lot more fun. We blitz a lot more. We really utilize our speed and we're using a lot better technique than what we were using last year. This blitzing defense really shows you we have a lot of speed on defense.

Gregg Williams

I'm willing to carry a long-snapping specialist, yes. But he has to show me he can handle the full-out blitz that he'll get in punt protection. If he can handle that, we'll carry him.

It has huge implications for how campaigns are going to operate if 40 percent of voters are going to make up their minds before the media blitz that occurs right before an election.

Once we made our ID, we were stuck in it. I could see things happening with linebackers moving or with a blitz coming, and we wouldn't be able to change it. Now we can call it and get the whole line to move left or right or pinch. We can pick up blitzes so much better this way.

Matt Light

They're a very physical defense and very experienced defense that has a lot of smart players and plays a lot of different things. They try to confuse you. They blitz you a lot.

Brian Billick

You could spend the entire offseason preparing for what New Orleans does to this point, ... But if they're a zone team, they could decide, you know what, we're going to blitz every down. In preseason, it's really about you and what you're trying to do than what's the opponent doing.

Jon Gruden

You chart pressures, like a weather man looks for clouds and storms, ... There are formations out there that tell you that the blitz is coming. Sometimes they're more difficult to forecast than others.