Tackle Quotes


You've just gotta surround him. You're not going to tackle him one-on-one very often. When he gets in the open, he's tough to bring down. - Jeff Holt


You've just got to break down and tackle Dante, because you never know what he's going to do. He's very shifty and unpredictable. They could have the wedge going one way and he could go the other way. - Derrick Blaylock


You're going to see, at some point, burnout. I see increased illness, stress. They don't know what to tackle next. - William Kiefer


Your good defenses are the ones that tackle well. Baltimore, New England ... you don't see them missing too many tackles. Tampa Bay used to be that way but no more. - Carl Banks


You'd like to have three or four deep at each position, and a Pro Bowl player on the first team and a backup Pro Bowl player on the second team and so forth. It's just, there's not that many; the good Lord didn't make that many good tackles in the world. - Ted Thompson


You would think, at this level, that you shouldn't have to coach tackling. No, you do. The people that don't, don't tackle well. You watch games and say, 'Man, that's sloppy tackling.' Well, you have to work on tackles and angles. It's your fundamentals. It's like if you are playing golf, you work on your golf swing even if you played 20 years, right? - Rod Marinelli


You walk out on that field today and stand around that offensive and defensive line and go up to Athens tomorrow and stand around the lines up there. Take out the surroundings, and tell me if you see a difference. They may have a couple more than we do. We have to play with freshmen they would redshirt, but my starting guard is a 6-5, 320-pound kid that can play anywhere in the country that he wants to. My right guard is 6-5, 315 and could play in the lower half of Division I. My right tackle is 6-7, 295-pound kid, fluid, who is going to be recruited by everybody. Shoot, I don't know know if (Georgia has) one as good as him. - Bert Williams


You talk about this defence, the defensive tackle position and what that means, adding another person to our rotation -- somebody who's really a different type physically than what we've had -- is really exciting to us. - Tony Dungy


You put your hand in the dirt, you got a guy sitting right there, you have to block him. You don't block him, what does it make any difference whether you are playing right guard, right tackle, left guard or left tackle? You have to move the guy. I think we are overrating anything that we have done, because we are totally missing the point. - Nick Saban


You need to teach people and educate people and coach people about the right way to play and the proper technique to tackle. - Troy Vincent


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