71 Quotes About Blitz

It will be like playing ones vs. ones in training camp. The only thing is if I get to blitz I finally get to hit him. He won't be wearing that red jersey.

You can do everything right on a blitz and think you have him pinned in, but all of a sudden he makes somebody miss and he's got a first down or a big play when everything was designed right.

We knew we'd have an opportunity to throw big on them. We just had to come out and do it. ... We saw they had a lot of schemes and blitz a lot. When a team blitzes, you have an opportunity to throw a lot of those dinks.

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.

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.

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

We're so sound on defense that we didn't feel we needed to blitz to get the type of pressure we needed, you know, to get the great underneath coverage we got from our secondary.

To blitz like Jacksonville did, you have to play man coverage, which would be completey out of character for Coach Rush. He doesn't like to do that. They'll blitz within their front five and they'll do some in-line stunts, but it won't be anything like we saw last week, because speed-wise they don't compare to Jacksonville.

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.