Peyton Manning is doing things that I think no other quarterback in the history of the league has done at the line of scrimmage... I just think they are a team right now that's got a real chance to run the table.
Quotes about scrimmage (16 Quotes)
(His ability) is no secret, ... (Georgia) figured that out the other night, holding him, grabbing him by the face-guard, making sure he didn't get off the line of scrimmage. They figured out real fast we're trying to get him the ball. We're always trying to get him the ball in a lot of different ways.
This was a big scrimmage for us today in terms of evaluating players. We ran around 100 plays and came away virtually healthy. I wanted to find out if our players could stay focused when they became tired and hot and not have any mental busts. Our staff wanted to see where we stood heading into the preparation of Duke. It's safe to say that right now our defense is well ahead of the offense.
Football strategy does not originate in a scrimmage it is useless to expect solutions in a political compaign.
Our depth isn't too bad, ... But we'll have to see how they act under fire. We did O.K. in our scrimmage (at Black River Falls Saturday), but Chippewa (Falls, tonight at 7 p.m.) is a pretty good team.
It's a learning process for him as it is for any young guy when all of a sudden he gets an opportunity to play. Once he gets the ball in his hands and he gets past the line of scrimmage, that's all on his ability. What we're trying to get accomplished is to get him into the second level of the defense.
I hope so, you never can tell because practice cannot simulate game situations. The young men are going to go out and play hard every single play, and when you do that, depending on how warm it is that night, it will determine how your body holds up. We'll be a lot better off than last year. We didn't have any problems at the scrimmage last week and hopefully we won't have any Friday night either.
After all, the world is not a stage -- not to me nor a theatre nor a show-house of any sort. And art, especially novels, are not little theatres where the reader sits aloft and watches... and sighs, commiserates, condones and smiles. That's what you want a book to be because it leaves you so safe and superior, with your two-dollar ticket to the show. And that's what my books are not and never will be. Whoever reads me will be in the thick of the scrimmage, and if he doesn't like it -- if he wants a safe seat in the audience -- let him read someone else.
What we did with him retarded his growth as a tight end, ... We understood that at the time, but we had no choice. We didn't have a fullback. Brandon's best when he's at the point of attack and blocking defensive ends at the line of scrimmage.
We use it a lot, depending on how a team is playing us, ... If they're going to have nine guys in the box near the line of scrimmage and are playing us man-up, yeah, we'll use the play action because it makes that corner hesitant.
There were other safeties up there, but Wilson was the fastest, ... And because of that, our big question with him is, Can he track the ball We can see him as a weak or strong safety. We were not looking for an 'in the box, play close to the line of scrimmage, run-defend only' safety. That's not what we were looking for. We were looking for someone that can do that but who also had the ability to play free safety and play centerfield. And because of his speed, we picked him. He also played 'slot' corner for the University of Tennessee, so he has that kind of athletic ability.
We started this after the 2003 season. We prepared for this to be part of our plan to have Steve and Jake have different signals and the ability to change plays at the line of scrimmage.
It's a real shame because Ticha was probably playing the best basketball of her career, the best that I've ever seen, for sure, ... She was even brilliant in our scrimmage (Tuesday). It was right at the end of practice, and Ticha was just running up the court. She stepped on someone's foot and turned her ankle. I should have ended practice one play sooner.
It hadn't looked good, even in the summer and in August with the scrimmage. We just weren't getting them where they needed to be they weren't running with a lot of authority.
Due to short prep time - some athletes had two days of practice thanks to successful basketball seasons - most of the coaches treated this as a scrimmage meet, with fewer entries than usual and basically getting all the new athletes familiar with a meet situation. The conference teams did this St. Stephens didn't.
With Sugar-Salem stacking the line of scrimmage to stop Marsh Valley's potent rushing game, the Eagles' coaching staff called a play-action pass, which left Tim Palmer wide open down the right sideline. He ran 70 yards for the score. They were loading the box up, ... They were bound and determined not to let us run, and we were taking advantage of that. Our game plan is to run the ball always, we throw it when we want to.