Yardage Quotes

You'd like not to but it's just according to how much yardage you want to give up... When you start kicking away from somebody ... the yards instead of being a 40-yard end up a 26-yard punt (return). But we are prepared to do both. - Bobby Bowden

You tell me one receiver out there right now that's doing the things he's doing. There's some guys who are having good games, but I'm talking about somebody who can give you across the middle, the short yardage, and beat you deep at any time? And line up at punt return and be liable to break it? You name me one that's doing it. - Brentson Buckner

You see him in the huddle really challenging the guys on the short yardage situations, the third downs, and you see him go up and down the sidelines on the offensive side, encouraging when we need to be encouraged. - Jeff Horton

You put yourself in such a hole and give up that much hidden yardage. You can't do that and expect to win in the NFL. - Dom Capers

Yes, games will probably get a little longer... You're always conscious of the length of games. It's not something you want to encourage. But we felt we had to do something about passing yardage going down. - Rich McKay

Yeah, it is frustrating. But there is some good with it. When you move the ball 80 yards on your first drive, and all of a sudden you're on the 1-yard line, and all of a sudden you lose your momentum like we did. When you go against a good defense and you're in long-yardage situations, you're going to be in for a long day, so you can't stop yourself. We're going to play a lot of good defensive football teams this year, so we'd better pick it up. If we don't, then we're going to be inconsistent like we have been the past two weeks. - Mike Shanahan

With as much pressure as we bring people, we are leaving some holes in the underneath coverage. It's just natural, you can't cover everything. I don't think you can say you are pleased with the amount of yardage . . . We have got to work on better individual one-on-one coverage. But, what we are pleased with is winning and getting the turnovers and keeping them out of the end zone. - Tom Coughlin

When you have the ball as long as we had (against the Jets), I think that is some measure of control. But we'd like to have more rushing yards for the number of attempts. There's no question about that. There were some positive things in the game about our running game. There are certainly a lot of things that we can work on. We'd like to be more consistent and gain a few more yards. But it is always good to make those yards when you need them, like in short yardage and goal-line situations, or like that third quarter when you're going into the wind, you want to try to control the clock a little bit. - Bill Belichick

We've got to defend the run, defend the Wing-T and put them into long-yardage situations so they have to throw. - Doug Preston

We've got a guy named Alstott that's been known to do some damage (in short yardage). We have some deception there too now with a couple of tight ends that can not only block but get down the field and do some things. - Jon Gruden