Downfield Quotes

You try to take advantage of whatever your strengths are. We've retooled our offensive line, and I'd love to give that ball to Steven and pound it in there and pound it in there and take our shots downfield when we feel like it. That's fun football. That means we've got control of the game. - Mike Martz

You can't do that to yourself, especially against a good team like that. We moved the ball downfield, but stopped ourselves. We're preventing ourselves from getting where we want to be. - Tim Finn

We've got to do a better job of playing the ball when we're downfield... And then we did have some communication mistakes defensively that allowed them to get some big plays. - Bobby Petrino

We need to stop the ball from going downfield. It's been inconsistent for us. - Nick Greisen

We hit Keith on a quick screen and two of our linemen had to make some downfield blocks. Keith set them up great and not many people can catch Keith Brown in the open field. - Mike Shula

We have the ability to attack the whole field, to distribute to all of our skill players... What we do, and everybody rolls their eyes when I say this, has a lot in common with the wishbone. The thing we have in common is, it's about distribution. The wishbone offense, you'll see all the skill positions touching the ball. ... We can just go further downfield than they can. - Mike Leach