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There's always room to improve, so I'm going to continue to improve on defense, offense, being consistent and continuing to play hard.
That's what we're here for as quarterbacks is to help our team win, lead the offense down the field and put points on the board.
All the projects that coaches go through in the offseason are based on the success other teams had in every area whether it's offense, defense or special teams. What they do is see if they can incorporate anything they see with the people they have.
I always try to play hard as possible to help my team - it doesn't matter if it's on defense or offense. I would say when I was young I was playing like that, too.
The triangle offense is more for slashers and people who like to take the ball to the basket.
It's like I was taught and I'm always saying it. Offense wins games, defense wins championships.
God's first line of defense - and offense - for every situation is prayer.
We need to play tough defense and have a sound offense. But mostly, we have to outrebound the other team.
Not a majority of the offense is run for me to post. I'm fine with that, but I want to play better on the offensive end.
Any quarterback that understands what the offense is really about is going to succeed.
It's easy to draw up isolation basketball - it's not easy to draw up great motion offense with passing and cutting.
I think there are different kinds of quarterbacks, and if you look at any offense, there are different kind of quarterbacks, but you play to the strengths of whoever the quarterback is for the team.
I was very involved defensively at Florida, and regardless of popular opinion, I wasn't as much on offense. Should have been, but I wasn't.
At Golden State, it was basically a guard-oriented offense and it wasn't either around me or in my direction.
A major theme in all my books is that the CIA is not only the first line of defense but they should also be the first line of offense.
Whatever the offense dictates to allow me doing what I or this offense needs to do to win games, I'm going to do it.
Against our zone, even really good offensive teams take longer than usual to get into their patterns, maybe 30 seconds. So we're locked into playing defense for that long... it's hard to run on offense after you've been hunkering down on D for that long.
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.
You never really get to the point in any offense - even when I was in New England for six years - where things don't change.
I think any time an offense struggles with developing a rhythm, struggles with scoring points, I think the first thing you have to examine is the quarterback.
Donovan McNabb has great, fast feet and has learned to lock them in to run the Eagles' offense effectively.
The job of the offense is not to score points. The job of the defense is not to stop the other team from scoring points.
I've looked up to Michael Jordan because not only was he an assassin on offense, he was an assassin on defense.
The only thing I want to be able to do is come in and learn the offense, go out there and compete, show what I am capable of doing and try to get better as a football player.
You have to have a deep passing game within your offense. It's got to be incorporated in some form or fashion.
Offense is one phase of the game. You have to be able to play the other phases of the game and help your team win.
When I first got to Toronto, we were last in defense, 20-something in offense, we were the laughing stock in the Eastern Conference.
Find fault, when you must find fault, in private, if possible; and some time after the offense, rather than at the time.
The triangle itself is just an offense based on freedom of the ball to go to different places, everybody feeling involved. It's a good thing.
When you play quarterback and the offense doesn't play well, a lot of that is because of the quarterback. You're going to receive the criticism.
I just want to be a guy that's reliable, make sure I take care of the football, make plays in situational downs, get in the end zone, help the offense move the ball, and win games.
It's tough when you get beat. You have to be able to come back mentally. Sometimes the offense is going to win, but you have to be able to be level-headed and not get too upset when they do catch the ball.
I believe the NFL is a land of opportunity. As soon as you figure out you can find your little niche, you can find your role on an offense, in my position at receiver, I feel like you can develop an identity and go from there.
Republicans spend too much time on defense. We have to be on offense. We have to point out the truth. President Obama stole seven hundred million dollars from Medicare. Republicans want to preserve Medicare. Obamacare robs from Medicare.
Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.
Whereto serves mercy But to confront the visage of offense?
He who forgives readily only invites offense.
Soccer helped especially with my footwork. When I played soccer, I was on offense scoring goals - I didn't pass the ball so much so it probably didn't help much with being a point guard.
Running the triangle offense, you have pretty much set rotations where you are going to be at.
Most of us have hoped and prayed for something to happen a certain way, but it didn't. And when this happened, we had a choice to make: to react with offense toward God or to trust Him anyway.
I'm not worried about offense. I've always had that, but I can get better defensively and that in turn will make my offense better.
My biggest problem when I was younger was trying to balance my ability with what the team needed me to do to officially run the offense.
I've been in the frame of mind in Charlotte that, O.K., I'm going to play defense. But I've never been in a frame of mind that my defense is going to generate my offense.
When I first became a head coach in Toronto, I was more of a dictator, wanted to do everything, all the development, defense, offense, whatever it was.
Phil Jackson was a brilliant basketball coach, not just because of the offense that he employed, but it was so many other things that went into it.
Forgiveness is not a feeling - it's a decision we make because we want to do what's right before God. It's a quality decision that won't be easy and it may take time to get through the process, depending on the severity of the offense.
When fans showed up at Candlestick, there was a great sense of anticipation that they would watch not only winning football, but also artistry. Our offense was that sublime.
If I have to score baskets then I have to try to score baskets and stop missing shots, but even if it's not going, I need to be able to have another phase of the game and not let my offense take away from my defense or rebounds.
I hope I can stand up and be an example that helps change the narrative: 'He understands the game from a technical standpoint. He can teach the game. He can change an offense. He can put in a zone. He can do more than recruit.'
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.