Quotes about three-man (13 Quotes)


    We played pretty much a four-man front for years around here and we played against people with a four-man front. ... If you get good enough playing a three-man front we don't care what they play against in practice.

    I think it's just our lack of concentration on that final pass, that final touch. Maybe it's adjusting to the new roles we have -- myself included -- playing out wide now (in the three-man attack). It's about knowing when to be out wide, and also knowing when to sneak into the middle to run at guys.

    At the time we didn't put another linebacker in. We took one of the defensive linemen off the line, stood him up and went into the three-man front that way. We did it in obvious passing situations, long-yardage situations or at the end of the game when we were protecting a lead.

    Their problem is they don't have the time. There are some people with 80 accounts, and that's 80 sites they have to visit. They may have only two persons plus them in a crew a three-man crew. If you have 80 accounts, some once a week, some every other week, 10 miles apart in some cases, you don't have much time. I'm not knocking the industry, I'm just pointing out some facts.

    Simmons is their second-best scorer, and he's got the ability to post up. If you take your three-man off of him, now all of a sudden, you've got Rip guarding somebody down in the block a lot.


    I did a play called 'On Golden Pond' in a dinner theater in Maine and then went to New York for a talent competition having put together a three-man juggling routine and some one-liners and I got myself an agent from that.

    said Simms. ''It's a matter of time. The game is much faster in the TV booth. It's so hard to get it done in a three-man booth. There's less time to talk. With only two guys, Troy will be able to set it up, and decide what he wants to show and tell. I'm sure he's going to enjoy it. I'm also sure he liked Cris and working with him. But this is about freedom.

    We had to play Mark Miller outside today which really just left us with a three-man rotation inside. It seemed like Antonio's time is here. He had a good week of practice. We're committed to playing these young players and the only way they are going to improve is to play them in the game.

    We were in a delay, but then I changed the setup where it was a three-man delay with our three guards and Durham's guy backed off him a little. That's not the way I would have drawn it up, but it was within what we were trying to do at that point.

    I know my nickel is probably going to be between 33, and depending on who we play, 40 percent of my defense. So, I'm trying to decide on the other generally 60 percent, whether it's going to be 30-30, 50-10, 40-20, three-man (front) as opposed to four-man.

    We've played three games, so who is to say who is long term here and who is not ... Quarterback, obviously is a position that evolves every year. It always has to evolve. It is a two- and three-man job. It can't be a one-man job because they don't last. That's just the way this system is.


    The biggest problem that I see in officiating is in basketball, with everybody going to three-man crews. Soon there will be three-man crews for every game, both boys and girls. Let's say there are 200 varsity games in the state on a given night. That means you need 200 more officials.



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